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Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Computational Biology, June 2011
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

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4 blogs
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28 X users
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Citations

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8 Dimensions

Readers on

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49 Mendeley
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9 CiteULike
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Title
Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery
Published in
PLoS Computational Biology, June 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002072
Pubmed ID
Authors

Samuel Arbesman, Nicholas A. Christakis

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 14%
Brazil 3 6%
United Kingdom 2 4%
Russia 1 2%
Mexico 1 2%
Unknown 35 71%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 33%
Other 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 12%
Student > Master 6 12%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 3 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 41%
Social Sciences 10 20%
Computer Science 6 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 10%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 2 4%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 03 February 2024.
All research outputs
#900,854
of 25,813,008 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Computational Biology
#673
of 9,044 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,439
of 127,547 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Computational Biology
#3
of 65 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,813,008 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,044 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 65 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 95% of its contemporaries.