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A 7,000-year-old multi-component arrow poison from Kruger Cave, South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in iScience, December 2024
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
35 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
twitter
36 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
20 Bluesky users

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mendeley
9 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A 7,000-year-old multi-component arrow poison from Kruger Cave, South Africa
Published in
iScience, December 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111438
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 11%
Researcher 1 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 11%
Unknown 6 67%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 11%
Computer Science 1 11%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 11%
Unknown 5 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 327. 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 09 June 2026.
All research outputs
#128,091
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from iScience
#118
of 12,400 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,586
of 404,177 outputs
Outputs of similar age from iScience
#4
of 340 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 12,400 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 340 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 98% of its contemporaries.