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Could a cheetah win the Melbourne Cup?

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Title
Could a cheetah win the Melbourne Cup?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.xdhs96hts
Authors

Clemente, Christofer

Abstract

Melbourne Cup thoroughbreds are considered the best of the best in world racing. But are they really top of the tree in the broader animal kingdom?

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Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 22 December 2025.
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#1,603,042
of 31,794,287 outputs
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#139,342
of 198,255 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,794,287 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 198,255 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 101.0. This one is in the 29th percentile – i.e., 29% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.