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Microplastics in personal care products: Exploring perceptions of environmentalists, beauticians and students

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, November 2016
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

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524 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Microplastics in personal care products: Exploring perceptions of environmentalists, beauticians and students
Published in
Marine Pollution Bulletin, November 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.10.048
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 523 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 76 15%
Student > Master 59 11%
Researcher 53 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 3%
Other 52 10%
Unknown 225 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 116 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 7%
Engineering 26 5%
Chemistry 21 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 2%
Other 70 13%
Unknown 243 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 03 April 2025.
All research outputs
#1,414,670
of 29,686,237 outputs
Outputs from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#516
of 11,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,048
of 318,902 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#9
of 167 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,686,237 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,297 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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