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Tuatara

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, December 2012
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
16 X users
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
66 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Tuatara
Published in
Current Biology, December 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.049
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Portugal 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Switzerland 1 2%
Unknown 63 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Master 7 11%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 20 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 45%
Environmental Science 7 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 21 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 109. 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 28 September 2026.
All research outputs
#490,372
of 34,444,361 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#1,835
of 17,299 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,874
of 344,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#15
of 124 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,444,361 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 17,299 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 344,446 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 124 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.