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Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, March 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#18 of 11,856)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
32 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
20 policy sources
twitter
147 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
1818 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic
Published in
Marine Pollution Bulletin, March 2019
DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.03.022
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1818 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 212 12%
Student > Bachelor 190 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 151 8%
Researcher 151 8%
Lecturer 52 3%
Other 191 11%
Unknown 871 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 292 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 142 8%
Engineering 96 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 46 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 42 2%
Other 272 15%
Unknown 928 51%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 469. 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 04 August 2026.
All research outputs
#73,610
of 34,444,361 outputs
Outputs from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#18
of 11,856 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,307
of 391,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#1
of 203 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,444,361 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,856 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 203 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 99% of its contemporaries.