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What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

Overview of attention for article published in Ecology and Evolution, October 2020
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes
Published in
Ecology and Evolution, October 2020
DOI 10.1002/ece3.6781
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 271 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 50 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 18%
Student > Master 31 11%
Student > Bachelor 22 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 6%
Other 39 14%
Unknown 65 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 107 39%
Environmental Science 59 22%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 <1%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 <1%
Other 16 6%
Unknown 80 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 27 November 2020.
All research outputs
#3,279,584
of 29,584,895 outputs
Outputs from Ecology and Evolution
#1,690
of 9,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#72,357
of 447,157 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology and Evolution
#60
of 275 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,584,895 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 9,876 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 447,157 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 275 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.