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Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia

Overview of attention for article published in Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 4,559)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
28 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
32 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
136 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Australia 2 1%
Unknown 134 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 20 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 14%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Other 10 7%
Student > Master 8 6%
Other 22 16%
Unknown 44 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 22 16%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 20 15%
Social Sciences 14 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 8%
Environmental Science 4 3%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 53 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 283. 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 04 February 2025.
All research outputs
#156,174
of 34,265,936 outputs
Outputs from Quaternary Science Reviews
#31
of 4,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,737
of 360,683 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Quaternary Science Reviews
#1
of 65 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,265,936 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 4,559 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 360,683 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 65 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 98% of its contemporaries.