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Defining events: 2020 in hindsight

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 2020
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About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
twitter
112 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
8 Mendeley

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 8 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 25%
Researcher 1 13%
Other 1 13%
Student > Postgraduate 1 13%
Unknown 3 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 25%
Psychology 1 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 13%
Unknown 4 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. 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 20 July 2021.
All research outputs
#551,210
of 34,593,328 outputs
Outputs from Science
#12,443
of 94,206 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,994
of 568,703 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#225
of 1,054 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,593,328 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 94,206 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 568,703 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 1,054 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.