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The postdoc dilemma

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, March 2012
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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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The postdoc dilemma
Published in
Nature, March 2012
DOI 10.1038/nj7388-235a
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 9%
United Kingdom 2 4%
France 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Unknown 43 78%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 35%
Researcher 19 35%
Other 3 5%
Professor 3 5%
Student > Master 3 5%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 2 4%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 40%
Chemistry 7 13%
Environmental Science 6 11%
Physics and Astronomy 4 7%
Engineering 4 7%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 3 5%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 19 March 2012.
All research outputs
#953,365
of 32,629,196 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#32,863
of 114,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,048
of 194,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#310
of 1,030 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,629,196 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 114,772 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 194,791 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,030 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its contemporaries.