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On the shape and fabric of human history

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, December 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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blogs
2 blogs
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
3 Google+ users
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
154 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
On the shape and fabric of human history
Published in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, December 2010
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2010.0162
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
United Kingdom 3 2%
Papua New Guinea 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Malta 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 137 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 22%
Researcher 28 18%
Student > Master 17 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Student > Bachelor 10 6%
Other 40 26%
Unknown 15 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 43 28%
Linguistics 22 14%
Social Sciences 19 12%
Psychology 14 9%
Arts and Humanities 8 5%
Other 30 19%
Unknown 18 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 May 2026.
All research outputs
#2,281,721
of 32,718,554 outputs
Outputs from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#1,840
of 7,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,436
of 243,786 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#12
of 60 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,718,554 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,578 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% 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 243,786 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 60 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.