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Is bull‐kelp kelp? The role of common names in science

Overview of attention for article published in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, May 2012
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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 (84th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Is bull‐kelp kelp? The role of common names in science
Published in
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, May 2012
DOI 10.1080/00288330.2011.621130
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 17%
Student > Master 7 15%
Researcher 7 15%
Other 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 8 17%
Unknown 10 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 31%
Environmental Science 10 21%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 13 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 01 April 2023.
All research outputs
#4,482,042
of 29,692,878 outputs
Outputs from New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
#85
of 881 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,527
of 186,972 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,692,878 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 881 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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