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Rethinking megafauna

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, March 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
twitter
69 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
6 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
224 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 224 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 33 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 14%
Student > Master 26 12%
Student > Bachelor 21 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 84 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 57 25%
Environmental Science 40 18%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 3%
Arts and Humanities 5 2%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 87 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 119. 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 06 August 2026.
All research outputs
#447,941
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#1,060
of 12,420 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,799
of 415,543 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#17
of 136 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12,420 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.4. 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 415,543 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 136 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.