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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 (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
2 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
54 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
633 Mendeley
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 633 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 632 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 109 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 108 17%
Student > Master 88 14%
Student > Bachelor 49 8%
Other 30 5%
Other 96 15%
Unknown 153 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 179 28%
Environmental Science 153 24%
Social Sciences 26 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 2%
Other 65 10%
Unknown 176 28%
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 15 March 2025.
All research outputs
#911,034
of 34,267,042 outputs
Outputs from Biological Reviews
#227
of 1,898 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,044
of 365,099 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biological Reviews
#4
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,267,042 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 1,898 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 365,099 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.