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Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994

Overview of attention for article published in eLife, December 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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6 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
23 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
11 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
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1 podcast

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149 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994
Published in
eLife, December 2016
DOI 10.7554/elife.20320
Pubmed ID
Authors

Aline Jelenkovic, Yoon-Mi Hur, Reijo Sund, Yoshie Yokoyama, Sisira H Siribaddana, Matthew Hotopf, Athula Sumathipala, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Qihua Tan, Dongfeng Zhang, Zengchang Pang, Sari Aaltonen, Kauko Heikkilä, Sevgi Y Öncel, Fazil Aliev, Esther Rebato, Adam D Tarnoki, David L Tarnoki, Kaare Christensen, Axel Skytthe, Kirsten O Kyvik, Judy L Silberg, Lindon J Eaves, Hermine H Maes, Tessa L Cutler, John L Hopper, Juan R Ordoñana, Juan F Sánchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Wendy Cozen, Amie E Hwang, Thomas M Mack, Joohon Sung, Yun-Mi Song, Sarah Yang, Kayoung Lee, Carol E Franz, William S Kremen, Michael J Lyons, Andreas Busjahn, Tracy L Nelson, Keith E Whitfield, Christian Kandler, Kerry L Jang, Margaret Gatz, David A Butler, Maria A Stazi, Corrado Fagnani, Cristina D'Ippolito, Glen E Duncan, Dedra Buchwald, Catherine A Derom, Robert F Vlietinck, Ruth JF Loos, Nicholas G Martin, Sarah E Medland, Grant W Montgomery, Hoe-Uk Jeong, Gary E Swan, Ruth Krasnow, Patrik KE Magnusson, Nancy L Pedersen, Anna K Dahl-Aslan, Tom A McAdams, Thalia C Eley, Alice M Gregory, Per Tynelius, Laura A Baker, Catherine Tuvblad, Gombojav Bayasgalan, Danshiitsoodol Narandalai, Paul Lichtenstein, Timothy D Spector, Massimo Mangino, Genevieve Lachance, Meike Bartels, Toos CEM van Beijsterveldt, Gonneke Willemsen, S Alexandra Burt, Kelly L Klump, Jennifer R Harris, Ingunn Brandt, Thomas Sevenius Nilsen, Robert F Krueger, Matt McGue, Shandell Pahlen, Robin P Corley, Jacob v B Hjelmborg, Jack H Goldberg, Yoshinori Iwatani, Mikio Watanabe, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Finn Rasmussen, Brooke M Huibregtse, Dorret I Boomsma, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Jaakko Kaprio, Karri Silventoinen

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Unknown 147 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 11%
Student > Bachelor 14 9%
Professor 13 9%
Student > Master 10 7%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 42 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 11%
Psychology 12 8%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 7%
Other 23 15%
Unknown 50 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 80. 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 12 October 2026.
All research outputs
#678,165
of 34,318,950 outputs
Outputs from eLife
#1,569
of 19,265 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,467
of 459,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age from eLife
#39
of 342 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,318,950 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 19,265 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 459,176 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 342 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.