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Brains and guts in human evolution: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Journal of Genetics, March 1997
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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)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
31 X users
facebook
13 Facebook pages
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
3 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
153 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Brains and guts in human evolution: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis
Published in
Brazilian Journal of Genetics, March 1997
DOI 10.1590/s0100-84551997000100023
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Argentina 2 1%
Greece 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 147 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 30 20%
Student > Master 25 16%
Researcher 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 8%
Professor 7 5%
Other 25 16%
Unknown 28 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 25%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 6%
Neuroscience 9 6%
Other 37 24%
Unknown 37 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. 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 15 July 2026.
All research outputs
#618,551
of 34,152,035 outputs
Outputs from Brazilian Journal of Genetics
#1
of 14 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#159
of 42,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brazilian Journal of Genetics
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,152,035 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 14 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.8. This one scored the same or higher as 13 of them.
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 42,622 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 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them