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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, November 2023
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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 (85th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
299 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
reddit
22 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
7 Bluesky users
podcasts
2 podcasts

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mendeley
90 Mendeley
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Student > Master 8 9%
Professor 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 32 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 10%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 39 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 317. 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 30 September 2026.
All research outputs
#136,330
of 34,626,533 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#8,091
of 118,123 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,199
of 456,927 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#154
of 1,052 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,626,533 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 118,123 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.9. 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 456,927 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 1,052 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.