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Apes, feathered apes, and pigeons: differences and similarities

Overview of attention for article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, August 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 (84th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
6 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
3 Bluesky users

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mendeley
126 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Apes, feathered apes, and pigeons: differences and similarities
Published in
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, August 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.03.003
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 123 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 26 21%
Student > Master 20 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 14%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 33 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 27%
Psychology 19 15%
Neuroscience 18 14%
Environmental Science 3 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 42 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 20 April 2025.
All research outputs
#873,567
of 32,030,936 outputs
Outputs from Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
#88
of 1,206 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,871
of 345,479 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
#4
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,030,936 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 1,206 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. 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 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.