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Satellite mega-constellations create risks in Low Earth Orbit, the atmosphere and on Earth

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

Mentioned by

news
65 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
173 tweeters
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
8 Redditors

Citations

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50 Dimensions

Readers on

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110 Mendeley
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Title
Satellite mega-constellations create risks in Low Earth Orbit, the atmosphere and on Earth
Published in
Scientific Reports, May 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-89909-7
Pubmed ID
Authors

Aaron C. Boley, Michael Byers

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 110 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 11%
Unspecified 11 10%
Student > Master 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 44 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 24 22%
Unspecified 10 9%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Physics and Astronomy 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 46 42%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 668. 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 19 May 2023.
All research outputs
#28,232
of 23,821,324 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#431
of 128,632 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,068
of 447,533 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#12
of 4,451 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,821,324 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 128,632 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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