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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them

Overview of attention for news story in Nature
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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 (92nd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
293 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
350 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
14 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Published by
Nature, August 2025
DOI 10.1038/d41586-025-02516-8
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 14%
Other 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Researcher 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 6 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 36%
Environmental Science 2 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 7%
Unknown 6 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 500. 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 18 April 2026.
All research outputs
#66,276
of 34,518,599 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#4,712
of 117,792 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#756
of 349,695 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#84
of 1,143 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,518,599 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 117,792 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 349,695 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 1,143 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 92% of its contemporaries.