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Dark Matter: A Primer

Overview of attention for article published in Advances in Astronomy, December 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 181)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
10 X users
wikipedia
15 Wikipedia pages
reddit
26 Redditors
q&a
2 Q&A threads

Readers on

mendeley
281 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Dark Matter: A Primer
Published in
Advances in Astronomy, December 2010
DOI 10.1155/2011/968283
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
Germany 3 1%
Italy 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
China 2 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 261 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 22%
Student > Bachelor 45 16%
Researcher 31 11%
Student > Master 28 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 4%
Other 42 15%
Unknown 62 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 181 64%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 2%
Chemistry 5 2%
Engineering 4 1%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 1%
Other 18 6%
Unknown 65 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. 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 10 December 2025.
All research outputs
#1,098,700
of 33,127,577 outputs
Outputs from Advances in Astronomy
#4
of 181 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,615
of 245,809 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Advances in Astronomy
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,127,577 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 181 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.2. 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 245,809 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 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them