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Why just fly?

Overview of attention for article published in Fly, November 2025
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#20 of 287)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Why just fly?
Published in
Fly, November 2025
DOI 10.1080/19336934.2025.2593725
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 1 50%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 March 2026.
All research outputs
#4,320,895
of 34,245,798 outputs
Outputs from Fly
#20
of 287 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,389
of 379,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Fly
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,245,798 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 287 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 379,425 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them