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The environmental impact of cities

Overview of attention for article published in Environment and Urbanization, October 2006
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
4 policy sources
twitter
3 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
603 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The environmental impact of cities
Published in
Environment and Urbanization, October 2006
DOI 10.1177/0956247806069599
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 11 2%
Germany 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 9 1%
Unknown 563 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 119 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 96 16%
Student > Bachelor 63 10%
Researcher 56 9%
Student > Postgraduate 38 6%
Other 106 18%
Unknown 125 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 139 23%
Social Sciences 116 19%
Engineering 56 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 4%
Design 24 4%
Other 102 17%
Unknown 142 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 07 April 2023.
All research outputs
#2,622,415
of 34,410,315 outputs
Outputs from Environment and Urbanization
#197
of 966 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,295
of 125,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environment and Urbanization
#2
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,315 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 966 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 125,751 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.