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How many sea scallops are there and why does it matter?

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, July 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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1 policy source
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2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
How many sea scallops are there and why does it matter?
Published in
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, July 2020
DOI 10.1002/fee.2244
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Researcher 4 12%
Other 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 17 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 29%
Environmental Science 3 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 9%
Mathematics 1 3%
Unknown 17 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 01 January 2024.
All research outputs
#4,106,296
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment
#861
of 1,920 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#77,492
of 457,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment
#9
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,920 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% 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 457,122 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its contemporaries.