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Earliest known human burial in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, May 2021
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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138 news outlets
blogs
23 blogs
twitter
875 X users
facebook
7 Facebook pages
wikipedia
13 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

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123 Mendeley
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Title
Earliest known human burial in Africa
Published in
Nature, May 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

María Martinón-Torres, Francesco d’Errico, Elena Santos, Ana Álvaro Gallo, Noel Amano, William Archer, Simon J. Armitage, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Katerina Douka, Stéphan Dubernet, Patrick Faulkner, Pilar Fernández-Colón, Nikos Kourampas, Jorge González García, David Larreina, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, George MacLeod, Laura Martín-Francés, Diyendo Massilani, Julio Mercader, Jennifer M. Miller, Emmanuel Ndiema, Belén Notario, Africa Pitarch Martí, Mary E. Prendergast, Alain Queffelec, Solange Rigaud, Patrick Roberts, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Ceri Shipton, Ian Simpson, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 123 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 13%
Student > Master 9 7%
Professor 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 35 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 17 14%
Social Sciences 16 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 11%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 49 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1799. 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 04 March 2024.
All research outputs
#5,665
of 25,587,485 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#599
of 98,310 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#269
of 455,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#29
of 900 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,587,485 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 98,310 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 900 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 96% of its contemporaries.