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Marine reserves saved coral reefs from Queensland floods

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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (61st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Marine reserves saved coral reefs from Queensland floods
Published by
The Conversation, May 2014
DOI 10.64628/aa.pvp5te7vy
Authors

Olds, Andrew, Pitt, Kylie, Connolly, Rod, Maxwell, Paul, Rissik, David, Babcock, Russ, Andrew Olds, David Rissik, Kylie Pitt, Paul Maxwell, Rod Connolly, Russ Babcock

Abstract

Marine reserves are a hot topic in Australia, with federal and state governments debating whether to allow recreational fishers to take fish from within their boundaries. But new research demonstrates…

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 24 July 2017.
All research outputs
#3,230,807
of 32,106,825 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#168,313
of 200,727 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,461
of 260,562 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#344
of 908 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,106,825 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 200,727 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.3. This one is in the 16th percentile – i.e., 16% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 260,562 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 908 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.