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Why Were Extinct Gigantic Birds So Small?

Overview of attention for article published in Avian Biology Research, January 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#20 of 399)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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17 X users
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6 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
Why Were Extinct Gigantic Birds So Small?
Published in
Avian Biology Research, January 2009
DOI 10.3184/175815508x402482
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 9%
Brazil 1 5%
Unknown 19 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 18%
Other 3 14%
Researcher 3 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 14%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 2 9%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 32%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 23%
Engineering 3 14%
Environmental Science 2 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 28 October 2026.
All research outputs
#3,290,186
of 34,553,382 outputs
Outputs from Avian Biology Research
#20
of 399 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,854
of 250,364 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Avian Biology Research
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,553,382 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 399 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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