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A New Kind of Inheritance

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific American, July 2014
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
7 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
69 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A New Kind of Inheritance
Published in
Scientific American, July 2014
DOI 10.1038/scientificamerican0814-44
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
New Zealand 1 1%
Unknown 66 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 20%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Professor 8 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 16 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 20%
Social Sciences 8 12%
Psychology 6 9%
Neuroscience 4 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 6%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 20 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 29 April 2023.
All research outputs
#1,032,792
of 31,836,582 outputs
Outputs from Scientific American
#1,087
of 7,371 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,410
of 260,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific American
#16
of 116 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,836,582 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,371 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 260,446 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 116 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.