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The hunt for the last great auks: ancient DNA resolves a 180-year-old mystery

Overview of attention for article published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2025
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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 (89th percentile)

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news
20 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
19 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
3 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The hunt for the last great auks: ancient DNA resolves a 180-year-old mystery
Published in
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2025
DOI 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf097
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 67%
Unspecified 1 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 1 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 33%
Unknown 1 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 188. 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 03 October 2026.
All research outputs
#263,402
of 34,020,007 outputs
Outputs from Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
#62
of 2,990 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,622
of 352,135 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
#4
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,020,007 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 2,990 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 352,135 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 38 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.