They are popular because they are popular, which is a circular argument that suits a pie chart. But there are some serious downsides to using the humble pie.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 220. 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 08 July 2026.
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#24,010
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Altmetric has tracked 34,603,176 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 214,353 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
