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Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution

Overview of attention for article published in PEOPLE AND NATURE, August 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#50 of 1,020)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
12 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
40 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
33 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution
Published in
PEOPLE AND NATURE, August 2023
DOI 10.1002/pan3.10520
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 6%
Student > Master 2 6%
Librarian 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 20 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 12%
Environmental Science 2 6%
Computer Science 2 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 21 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 139. 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 19 May 2026.
All research outputs
#377,540
of 34,387,656 outputs
Outputs from PEOPLE AND NATURE
#50
of 1,020 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,248
of 382,996 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PEOPLE AND NATURE
#2
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,387,656 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 1,020 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 382,996 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 46 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.