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Self-Medication in Animals

Overview of attention for article published in Science, April 2013
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
16 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
twitter
19 X users
facebook
10 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
3 Google+ users
reddit
5 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
436 Mendeley
citeulike
4 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Self-Medication in Animals
Published in
Science, April 2013
DOI 10.1126/science.1235824
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 436 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 1%
France 6 1%
Brazil 5 1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Réunion 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 5 1%
Unknown 406 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 82 19%
Researcher 67 15%
Student > Master 55 13%
Student > Bachelor 52 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 22 5%
Other 73 17%
Unknown 85 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 196 45%
Environmental Science 27 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 6%
Neuroscience 11 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 2%
Other 55 13%
Unknown 113 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 221. 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 05 January 2026.
All research outputs
#208,248
of 32,066,226 outputs
Outputs from Science
#5,764
of 91,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,125
of 235,289 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#43
of 889 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,066,226 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 91,836 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 235,289 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 889 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.