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Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, April 1990
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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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
18 Wikipedia pages
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
187 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs
Published in
Nature, April 1990
DOI 10.1038/344858a0
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
France 2 1%
Brazil 2 1%
Belgium 2 1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 171 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 16%
Researcher 28 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 14%
Student > Bachelor 26 14%
Professor 15 8%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 25 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 94 50%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 23 12%
Environmental Science 16 9%
Engineering 7 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 9 5%
Unknown 33 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,384,593
of 34,323,687 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#39,451
of 117,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#224
of 23,138 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#8
of 251 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,323,687 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 117,409 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 gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 251 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 96% of its contemporaries.