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Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists

Overview of attention for article published in Animal Behaviour, September 2014
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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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1 news outlet
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1 X user
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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists
Published in
Animal Behaviour, September 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.06.008
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Denmark 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 75 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 17%
Student > Bachelor 12 15%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 8 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 62%
Environmental Science 9 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Chemistry 2 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 15 19%
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 05 June 2025.
All research outputs
#2,918,983
of 28,407,905 outputs
Outputs from Animal Behaviour
#1,245
of 6,339 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,378
of 252,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animal Behaviour
#13
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,407,905 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 6,339 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 252,486 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 44 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 70% of its contemporaries.