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U.S. Scientists' Role in the Eugenics Movement (1907–1939): A Contemporary Biologist's Perspective

Overview of attention for article published in Zebrafish, December 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 532)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
67 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
350 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
123 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
bluesky
26 Bluesky users
podcasts
8 podcasts

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mendeley
77 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
U.S. Scientists' Role in the Eugenics Movement (1907–1939): A Contemporary Biologist's Perspective
Published in
Zebrafish, December 2008
DOI 10.1089/zeb.2008.0576
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 77 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 19 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 23 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 12%
Psychology 8 10%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 27 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 952. 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 09 October 2026.
All research outputs
#22,186
of 34,583,980 outputs
Outputs from Zebrafish
#1
of 532 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32
of 246,370 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Zebrafish
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,583,980 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 532 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 7 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