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Revisiting the Taxonomic Impediment

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 2005
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Article details
Title
Revisiting the Taxonomic Impediment
Published in
Science, January 2005
DOI 10.1126/science.307.5708.353b
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 314 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 30 10%
Colombia 3 <1%
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Other 5 2%
Unknown 265 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 22%
Student > Master 54 17%
Researcher 53 17%
Student > Bachelor 32 10%
Professor 27 9%
Other 58 18%
Unknown 22 7%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 224 71%
Environmental Science 29 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 2%
Social Sciences 5 2%
Other 11 4%
Unknown 28 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 28 August 2025.
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#9,985,009
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Outputs from Science
#55,902
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Outputs of similar age
#48,259
of 175,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#204
of 315 outputs
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