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Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, March 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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
47 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
105 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
7 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

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1095 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill
Published in
Nature Communications, March 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-03465-9
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1095 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 156 14%
Student > Master 119 11%
Researcher 112 10%
Student > Bachelor 109 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 45 4%
Other 133 12%
Unknown 421 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 195 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 112 10%
Chemistry 68 6%
Engineering 51 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 47 4%
Other 141 13%
Unknown 481 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 496. 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 18 October 2025.
All research outputs
#67,238
of 34,593,328 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#1,078
of 83,463 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,358
of 377,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#24
of 1,209 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,593,328 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 83,463 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 49.4. 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 377,550 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 1,209 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.