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The Coming Megafloods

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific American, December 2012
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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 (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
41 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
27 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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39 Dimensions

Readers on

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51 Mendeley
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Title
The Coming Megafloods
Published in
Scientific American, December 2012
DOI 10.1038/scientificamerican0113-64
Pubmed ID
Authors

Michael D Dettinger, B Lynn Ingram

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 2%
Unknown 50 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 22%
Student > Master 8 16%
Researcher 7 14%
Professor 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 16 31%
Environmental Science 7 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 8%
Engineering 4 8%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 12 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 386. 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 06 February 2024.
All research outputs
#80,360
of 25,562,515 outputs
Outputs from Scientific American
#110
of 6,039 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#403
of 289,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific American
#3
of 80 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,562,515 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 6,039 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 289,434 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.
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