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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
twitter
12 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
148 Mendeley
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 148 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Student > Master 11 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Student > Postgraduate 8 5%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 58 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 18 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 61 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 09 June 2020.
All research outputs
#1,091,751
of 34,240,007 outputs
Outputs from mBio
#711
of 7,916 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,345
of 524,683 outputs
Outputs of similar age from mBio
#9
of 138 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,240,007 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,916 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 524,683 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 138 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 93% of its contemporaries.