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Dunes on planet Tatooine: Observation of barchan migration at the Star Wars film set in Tunisia

Overview of attention for article published in Geomorphology, November 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#18 of 2,736)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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7 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
31 X users
facebook
11 Facebook pages
reddit
4 Redditors

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Article details
Title
Dunes on planet Tatooine: Observation of barchan migration at the Star Wars film set in Tunisia
Published in
Geomorphology, November 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.06.026
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 74 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 18%
Researcher 11 14%
Professor 8 10%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Other 23 29%
Unknown 8 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 37 47%
Environmental Science 9 11%
Physics and Astronomy 5 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 108. 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 18 January 2021.
All research outputs
#495,777
of 34,427,821 outputs
Outputs from Geomorphology
#18
of 2,736 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,306
of 262,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Geomorphology
#1
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,427,821 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 2,736 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 262,854 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 33 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 96% of its contemporaries.