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Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona

Overview of attention for article published in Physical Review Letters, December 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 51,360)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
171 news outlets
blogs
21 blogs
twitter
174 X users
wikipedia
12 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
73 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 21%
Researcher 10 14%
Other 3 4%
Student > Master 3 4%
Student > Postgraduate 3 4%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 34 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 32 44%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 4%
Engineering 3 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 1%
Chemistry 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 33 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1559. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#8,789
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Physical Review Letters
#5
of 51,360 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#319
of 561,278 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Physical Review Letters
#1
of 512 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 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 51,360 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 561,278 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 512 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 99% of its contemporaries.