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Can Beach Cleans Do More Than Clean-Up Litter? Comparing Beach Cleans to Other Coastal Activities

Overview of attention for article published in Environment and Behavior, May 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 852)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
20 news outlets
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
283 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Can Beach Cleans Do More Than Clean-Up Litter? Comparing Beach Cleans to Other Coastal Activities
Published in
Environment and Behavior, May 2016
DOI 10.1177/0013916516649412
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 279 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 13%
Student > Bachelor 35 12%
Researcher 20 7%
Other 10 4%
Other 44 16%
Unknown 94 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 61 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 9%
Psychology 25 9%
Social Sciences 12 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 4%
Other 46 16%
Unknown 103 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 197. 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 22 April 2026.
All research outputs
#249,988
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from Environment and Behavior
#28
of 852 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,600
of 340,659 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environment and Behavior
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 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 852 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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