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Ballast water: a review of the impact on the world public health

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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3 policy sources
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1 Facebook page
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1 YouTube creator

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Article details
Title
Ballast water: a review of the impact on the world public health
Published in
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2008
DOI 10.1590/s1678-91992008000300002
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Greece 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 88 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 18%
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Student > Master 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Student > Postgraduate 5 5%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 23 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 22%
Environmental Science 15 16%
Engineering 8 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 29 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 07 January 2025.
All research outputs
#4,760,371
of 33,732,945 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#67
of 551 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,488
of 223,064 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#3
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,732,945 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 551 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 223,064 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.