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Investigating the Global Dispersal of Chickens in Prehistory Using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Signatures

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, July 2012
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
6 X users
facebook
9 Facebook pages
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages
reddit
5 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

Readers on

mendeley
187 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 179 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 19%
Student > Bachelor 29 16%
Researcher 23 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Student > Master 12 6%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 39 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 65 35%
Arts and Humanities 18 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 9%
Social Sciences 16 9%
Environmental Science 11 6%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 38 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 92. 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 25 July 2025.
All research outputs
#587,814
of 34,559,526 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#7,446
of 225,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,518
of 214,814 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#86
of 4,301 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,559,526 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 225,087 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4,301 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 98% of its contemporaries.