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Science-based taxonomy still needs better governance: Response to Thomson et al.

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Biology, 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 (96th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
17 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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mendeley
70 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Science-based taxonomy still needs better governance: Response to Thomson et al.
Published in
PLoS Biology, March 2018
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005249
Pubmed ID
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Professor 5 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 44%
Environmental Science 13 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 3%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 16 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. 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 05 April 2024.
All research outputs
#820,208
of 34,321,056 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Biology
#1,374
of 7,786 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,477
of 380,671 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Biology
#39
of 110 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,321,056 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,786 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 56.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 110 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 64% of its contemporaries.