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Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, January 2018
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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 548 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 113 21%
Researcher 108 20%
Student > Master 50 9%
Student > Bachelor 45 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 29 5%
Other 90 16%
Unknown 113 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Immunology and Microbiology 104 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 99 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 98 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 44 8%
Chemistry 18 3%
Other 49 9%
Unknown 136 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 196. 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 10 October 2026.
All research outputs
#255,463
of 34,582,852 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#13,503
of 117,951 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,584
of 498,118 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#204
of 799 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,582,852 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 117,951 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 498,118 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 799 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 74% of its contemporaries.