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Rejecting arrogance

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, February 2006
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Rejecting arrogance
Published in
Current Biology, February 2006
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.037
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 8%
United Kingdom 1 4%
Unknown 21 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 2 8%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 42%
Neuroscience 7 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Computer Science 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 3 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 August 2021.
All research outputs
#5,451,597
of 32,842,765 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#7,792
of 16,851 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,782
of 222,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#28
of 88 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,842,765 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,851 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% 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 222,638 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 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 88 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 68% of its contemporaries.