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The Kraken: when myth encounters science

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 1,656)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
13 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
42 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Kraken: when myth encounters science
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2014
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702014000300010
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Researcher 5 12%
Professor 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 9 21%
Unknown 11 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 10%
Arts and Humanities 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Physics and Astronomy 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 12 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 14 December 2025.
All research outputs
#815,379
of 34,571,987 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#9
of 1,656 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,549
of 281,292 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,571,987 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,656 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.9. 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 281,292 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 17 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 94% of its contemporaries.