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Elemental signatures of Australopithecus africanus teeth reveal seasonal dietary stress

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, July 2019
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
57 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
twitter
161 X users
facebook
10 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
7 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
163 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Elemental signatures of Australopithecus africanus teeth reveal seasonal dietary stress
Published in
Nature, July 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1370-5
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 163 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 19%
Researcher 24 15%
Other 11 7%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Student > Master 8 5%
Other 31 19%
Unknown 49 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 18 11%
Social Sciences 12 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 7%
Arts and Humanities 8 5%
Other 29 18%
Unknown 62 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 598. 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 21 August 2026.
All research outputs
#48,725
of 34,391,611 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#3,749
of 117,605 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#807
of 391,073 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#69
of 930 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,391,611 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 117,605 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 391,073 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 930 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 92% of its contemporaries.