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Did the horned dinosaur Protoceratops inspire the griffin?

Overview of attention for article published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, June 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 479)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
187 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
twitter
102 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
12 Wikipedia pages
reddit
11 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
47 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
7 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Did the horned dinosaur Protoceratops inspire the griffin?
Published in
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, June 2024
DOI 10.1177/03080188241255543
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 29%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 14%
Other 1 14%
Student > Master 1 14%
Unknown 2 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 29%
Physics and Astronomy 2 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 14%
Unknown 2 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1534. 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 01 October 2026.
All research outputs
#9,203
of 34,641,161 outputs
Outputs from Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
#1
of 479 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#186
of 362,194 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,641,161 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 479 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. 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 362,194 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 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them