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Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
q&a
1 Q&A thread

Readers on

mendeley
481 Mendeley
citeulike
5 CiteULike
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2009
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0907926106
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 17 4%
Denmark 4 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
France 3 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Papua New Guinea 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Other 5 1%
Unknown 441 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 123 26%
Researcher 79 16%
Student > Master 56 12%
Student > Bachelor 40 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 6%
Other 98 20%
Unknown 57 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 309 64%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 37 8%
Environmental Science 26 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 1%
Unspecified 5 1%
Other 22 5%
Unknown 75 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 09 December 2025.
All research outputs
#2,618,703
of 34,361,833 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#30,033
of 118,929 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,803
of 235,494 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#211
of 978 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,361,833 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 118,929 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 235,494 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 978 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.