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Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, December 2014
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
87 news outlets
blogs
29 blogs
twitter
257 X users
facebook
283 Facebook pages
wikipedia
42 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
6 Google+ users
reddit
15 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
bluesky
3 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
448 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike

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X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 257 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 448 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 1%
United States 4 <1%
Netherlands 4 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 424 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 18%
Researcher 66 15%
Student > Master 47 10%
Student > Bachelor 44 10%
Professor 38 8%
Other 75 17%
Unknown 97 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 93 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 14%
Social Sciences 52 12%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 36 8%
Psychology 19 4%
Other 68 15%
Unknown 119 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1113. 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 17 October 2026.
All research outputs
#16,908
of 34,804,214 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#1,473
of 118,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#87
of 426,946 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#11
of 960 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,804,214 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 118,486 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 426,946 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 960 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.