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Considerations for effective science communication

Overview of attention for article published in FACETS, March 2017
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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2 blogs
twitter
89 X users
facebook
8 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Considerations for effective science communication
Published in
FACETS, March 2017
DOI 10.1139/facets-2016-0055
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Chile 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 365 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 15%
Student > Master 49 13%
Student > Bachelor 44 12%
Researcher 36 10%
Other 15 4%
Other 49 13%
Unknown 119 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 64 17%
Social Sciences 44 12%
Environmental Science 32 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 4%
Psychology 10 3%
Other 73 20%
Unknown 131 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 73. 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 28 April 2025.
All research outputs
#743,274
of 34,550,734 outputs
Outputs from FACETS
#52
of 681 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,509
of 349,232 outputs
Outputs of similar age from FACETS
#3
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,550,734 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 681 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 20 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.