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Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Conservation, April 2017
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
16 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
1801 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection
Published in
Biological Conservation, April 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.015
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Spain 3 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 1791 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 279 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 232 13%
Researcher 202 11%
Student > Bachelor 181 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 76 4%
Other 233 13%
Unknown 598 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 402 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 333 18%
Social Sciences 109 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 60 3%
Engineering 42 2%
Other 205 11%
Unknown 650 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 117. 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 03 October 2025.
All research outputs
#430,006
of 31,876,265 outputs
Outputs from Biological Conservation
#280
of 7,764 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,121
of 340,990 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biological Conservation
#3
of 90 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,876,265 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 7,764 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 340,990 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 90 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 96% of its contemporaries.