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Pathogen to powerhouse

Overview of attention for article published in Science, February 2016
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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119 X users
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1 Facebook page
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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
Pathogen to powerhouse
Published in
Science, February 2016
DOI 10.1126/science.aad8864
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 4%
United States 3 3%
France 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 90 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 27%
Researcher 19 19%
Student > Master 13 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 10 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 27%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 3%
Chemistry 3 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 16 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. 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 10 June 2025.
All research outputs
#677,225
of 33,992,632 outputs
Outputs from Science
#14,437
of 93,677 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,002
of 456,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#234
of 1,211 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,992,632 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 93,677 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 456,493 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 1,211 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.