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How the ‘terror crocodile’ grew so big

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, March 1999
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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2 news outlets
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
19 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
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2 YouTube creators

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78 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
How the ‘terror crocodile’ grew so big
Published in
Nature, March 1999
DOI 10.1038/18343
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Portugal 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 74 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 19%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Professor 5 6%
Other 18 23%
Unknown 10 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 32 41%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 40%
Environmental Science 3 4%
Psychology 1 1%
Materials Science 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 22 July 2026.
All research outputs
#2,114,610
of 33,205,760 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#47,381
of 115,920 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,341
of 50,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#44
of 274 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,205,760 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 115,920 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% 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 50,451 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 274 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.