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Dung beetle species introductions: when an ecosystem service provider transforms into an invasive species

Overview of attention for article published in PeerJ, September 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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twitter
3 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
62 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Dung beetle species introductions: when an ecosystem service provider transforms into an invasive species
Published in
PeerJ, September 2020
DOI 10.7717/peerj.9872
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Student > Master 4 6%
Researcher 3 5%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 26 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 31%
Environmental Science 4 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Unspecified 2 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 2%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 26 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 02 May 2025.
All research outputs
#6,275,858
of 32,692,245 outputs
Outputs from PeerJ
#4,645
of 16,647 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#114,524
of 452,295 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PeerJ
#152
of 522 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,692,245 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,647 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 452,295 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 522 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 70% of its contemporaries.