Brisbane floods: pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river

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In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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twitter: 74 X users

facebook: 2 Facebook pages
reddit: 2 Redditors

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Title	Brisbane floods: pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.uragnahdq
Authors	Cook, Margaret
Abstract	Prone to flooding, by the 1970s Brisbane’s South Bank was largely undeveloped open space. It is now home to Queensland’s major cultural institutions.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	46	62%
United Kingdom	2	3%
United States	1	1%
North Macedonia	1	1%
Unknown	24	32%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	61	82%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	7	9%
Scientists	6	8%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 107. 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 29 May 2023.

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#59,678

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Altmetric has tracked 32,947,736 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 206,796 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.