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Maintaining the joy of discovery

Overview of attention for article published in eLife, June 2022
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  • 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 (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
263 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
bluesky
14 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
1 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Maintaining the joy of discovery
Published in
eLife, June 2022
DOI 10.7554/elife.80711
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 100%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 100%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 185. 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 08 May 2025.
All research outputs
#269,101
of 34,245,017 outputs
Outputs from eLife
#471
of 19,230 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,309
of 467,989 outputs
Outputs of similar age from eLife
#20
of 475 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,245,017 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 19,230 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.0. 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 467,989 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 475 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 95% of its contemporaries.