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How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease

Overview of attention for article published in Zoologia (Curitiba), April 2010
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Article details
Title
How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease
Published in
Zoologia (Curitiba), April 2010
DOI 10.1590/s1984-46702010000200001
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 13 3%
Brazil 9 2%
Poland 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Papua New Guinea 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 6 1%
Unknown 379 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 98 24%
Researcher 71 17%
Student > Master 49 12%
Student > Bachelor 48 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 6%
Other 64 15%
Unknown 60 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 245 59%
Environmental Science 38 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 2%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 8 2%
Other 21 5%
Unknown 80 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 16 February 2018.
All research outputs
#9,768,367
of 29,305,317 outputs
Outputs from Zoologia (Curitiba)
#135
of 432 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,356
of 117,675 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Zoologia (Curitiba)
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,305,317 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 432 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% 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 117,675 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.