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Widow spiders in the New World: a review on Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 (Theridiidae) and latrodectism in the Americas

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2021
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Title
Widow spiders in the New World: a review on Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1805 (Theridiidae) and latrodectism in the Americas
Published in
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2021
DOI 10.1590/1678-9199-jvatitd-2021-0011
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 59 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 8%
Other 3 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 30 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Engineering 3 5%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 32 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 08 February 2026.
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#26,310,915
of 32,896,196 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#393
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#420,475
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#24
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So far Altmetric has tracked 544 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one is in the 18th percentile – i.e., 18% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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