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A coronavirus detected in the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, December 2008
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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 922)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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17 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
A coronavirus detected in the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus
Published in
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, December 2008
DOI 10.1590/s1413-86702008000600003
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Brazil 3 2%
Costa Rica 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 118 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 13%
Student > Master 16 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 28 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 46 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 5%
Environmental Science 4 3%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 36 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 09 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,421,039
of 32,075,850 outputs
Outputs from Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
#9
of 922 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,958
of 230,733 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,075,850 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 922 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.9. 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 230,733 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 9 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