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The Mw 6.2 Christchurch earthquake of February 2011: preliminary report

Overview of attention for article published in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, January 2012
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Article details
Title
The Mw 6.2 Christchurch earthquake of February 2011: preliminary report
Published in
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, January 2012
DOI 10.1080/00288306.2011.641182
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
New Zealand 3 2%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 162 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 19%
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Bachelor 22 13%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 5%
Other 23 14%
Unknown 42 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 47 28%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 45 27%
Environmental Science 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 52 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 15 April 2025.
All research outputs
#9,463,900
of 32,125,052 outputs
Outputs from New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
#133
of 672 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#75,107
of 288,651 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
#19
of 232 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,125,052 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 672 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 288,651 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 232 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.