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The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, January 2020
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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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news
8 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
203 X users
patent
3 patents
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

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mendeley
1188 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes
Published in
Nature, January 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1894-8
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1188 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 182 15%
Student > Bachelor 156 13%
Researcher 122 10%
Student > Master 112 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 46 4%
Other 103 9%
Unknown 467 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 309 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 147 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 93 8%
Environmental Science 23 2%
Chemistry 18 2%
Other 106 9%
Unknown 492 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 200. 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 11 February 2026.
All research outputs
#249,521
of 34,596,607 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#13,249
of 118,012 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,100
of 522,174 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#254
of 860 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,596,607 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 118,012 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 522,174 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 860 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 70% of its contemporaries.