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Oxpeckers Help Rhinos Evade Humans

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, April 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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
36 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
twitter
304 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
3 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
64 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Oxpeckers Help Rhinos Evade Humans
Published in
Current Biology, April 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.015
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 64 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Master 3 5%
Other 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 25 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 23%
Environmental Science 8 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 3%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 28 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 550. 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
#56,203
of 34,399,888 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#426
of 17,285 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,851
of 430,355 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#8
of 275 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,399,888 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 17,285 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 430,355 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 275 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 97% of its contemporaries.