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Is science in danger of sanctifying the wolf?

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Conservation, June 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Title
Is science in danger of sanctifying the wolf?
Published in
Biological Conservation, June 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.003
Authors

L. David Mech

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 2%
Brazil 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
India 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 10 2%
Unknown 438 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 86 18%
Student > Master 83 18%
Student > Bachelor 77 16%
Researcher 66 14%
Other 31 7%
Other 61 13%
Unknown 69 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 234 49%
Environmental Science 93 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 19 4%
Social Sciences 11 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 2%
Other 29 6%
Unknown 78 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 83. 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 20 December 2023.
All research outputs
#513,031
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Biological Conservation
#398
of 6,612 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,428
of 179,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biological Conservation
#2
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 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 6,612 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 179,216 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 39 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 94% of its contemporaries.