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‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Climate Change, 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 (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
18 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
14 X users
reddit
5 Redditors
bluesky
169 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
129 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action
Published in
Nature Climate Change, December 2024
DOI 10.1038/s41558-024-02196-8
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 129 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 13%
Unspecified 8 6%
Other 6 5%
Student > Master 6 5%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 46 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 20 16%
Environmental Science 11 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Unspecified 7 5%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Other 21 16%
Unknown 55 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 318. 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 16 July 2026.
All research outputs
#131,557
of 33,216,068 outputs
Outputs from Nature Climate Change
#457
of 4,957 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,617
of 395,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Climate Change
#3
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,216,068 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 4,957 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 124.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 395,499 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 70 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 95% of its contemporaries.