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Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, November 2016
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Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
13 blogs
twitter
1120 X users
facebook
9 Facebook pages
googleplus
6 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
136 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
270 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Title
Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research
Published in
PLOS ONE, November 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0166570
Pubmed ID
Authors

Brandon K. Peoples, Stephen R. Midway, Dana Sackett, Abigail Lynch, Patrick B. Cooney

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,120 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 270 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 256 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 48 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 14%
Student > Master 29 11%
Student > Bachelor 23 9%
Other 21 8%
Other 74 27%
Unknown 36 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 70 26%
Social Sciences 35 13%
Computer Science 23 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 6%
Environmental Science 13 5%
Other 56 21%
Unknown 57 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 765. 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 27 July 2022.
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#25,969
of 25,765,370 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#421
of 224,606 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#471
of 317,813 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#9
of 3,944 outputs
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