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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Overview of attention for article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
wikipedia
23 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
40 Mendeley
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 2 5%
United States 1 3%
United Kingdom 1 3%
Spain 1 3%
Unknown 35 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 28%
Student > Master 5 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 6 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 31 78%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Unknown 6 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 17 October 2025.
All research outputs
#6,093,570
of 34,364,397 outputs
Outputs from Astronomy and Astrophysics
#7,981
of 33,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,952
of 162,924 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Astronomy and Astrophysics
#19
of 121 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,364,397 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 33,592 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 162,924 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 121 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.