↓ Skip to main content

Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Is Emitted in Aerosol Particles

Overview of attention for article published in mBio, October 2021
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
132 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
5 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
54 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Is Emitted in Aerosol Particles
Published in
mBio, October 2021
DOI 10.1128/mbio.02527-21
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 132 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Professor 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Student > Master 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 19 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 11%
Engineering 5 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 23 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 144. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2026.
All research outputs
#360,972
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from mBio
#217
of 7,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,430
of 472,060 outputs
Outputs of similar age from mBio
#7
of 193 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,925 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 472,060 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 193 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.