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Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Physics, December 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 4,195)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
55 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
4 Google+ users
reddit
3 Redditors

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mendeley
30 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa
Published in
American Journal of Physics, December 2010
DOI 10.1119/1.3490645
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 1 3%
Unknown 29 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 23%
Student > Master 6 20%
Professor 4 13%
Other 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Other 6 20%
Unknown 1 3%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 7 23%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 17%
Chemistry 5 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 13%
Environmental Science 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 4 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 99. 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 18 June 2026.
All research outputs
#542,144
of 34,343,841 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Physics
#36
of 4,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,071
of 254,132 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Physics
#1
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,343,841 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 4,195 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 254,132 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 20 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 95% of its contemporaries.