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Wildfire smoke, a potential infectious agent

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 2020
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
141 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
120 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
4 Redditors
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
67 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Wildfire smoke, a potential infectious agent
Published in
Science, December 2020
DOI 10.1126/science.abe8116
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 26 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 16%
Environmental Science 8 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 7%
Engineering 4 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 4%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 25 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1220. 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 23 July 2026.
All research outputs
#13,887
of 34,296,630 outputs
Outputs from Science
#690
of 93,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#460
of 567,782 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#25
of 1,057 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,296,630 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 93,935 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 567,782 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,057 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 97% of its contemporaries.