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Biodegradable and compostable alternatives to conventional plastics

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 2009
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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 (99th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
12 X users
patent
5 patents
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
6 Redditors

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2501 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Biodegradable and compostable alternatives to conventional plastics
Published in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 2009
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2008.0289
Pubmed ID
Authors

J. H. Song, R. J. Murphy, R. Narayan, G. B. H. Davies

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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 4 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Chile 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Other 7 <1%
Unknown 2472 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 416 17%
Student > Master 298 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 294 12%
Researcher 202 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 80 3%
Other 276 11%
Unknown 935 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 282 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 249 10%
Environmental Science 206 8%
Chemistry 188 8%
Chemical Engineering 115 5%
Other 446 18%
Unknown 1015 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 127. 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 25 July 2026.
All research outputs
#410,686
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#329
of 7,743 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#967
of 172,277 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#17
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 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 7,743 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 particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 172,277 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 70 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.