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New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, 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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Article details
Title
New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere
Published in
Science Advances, March 2018
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0030
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 23%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 20 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 20 29%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 11 16%
Engineering 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 24 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1159. 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 11 June 2026.
All research outputs
#15,623
of 34,553,382 outputs
Outputs from Science Advances
#236
of 19,272 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#263
of 381,127 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Advances
#4
of 237 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,553,382 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 19,272 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 101.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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