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Dating first cases of COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Pathogens, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 9,548)
  • 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
208 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
276 X users
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
5 Redditors

Citations

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79 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
155 Mendeley
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Title
Dating first cases of COVID-19
Published in
PLoS Pathogens, June 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009620
Pubmed ID
Authors

David L. Roberts, Jeremy S. Rossman, Ivan Jarić

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 155 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 155 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 14%
Student > Bachelor 18 12%
Student > Master 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 72 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 3%
Other 27 17%
Unknown 77 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1796. 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 2024.
All research outputs
#5,743
of 25,789,020 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Pathogens
#5
of 9,548 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#297
of 458,016 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Pathogens
#1
of 188 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,789,020 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 9,548 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.0. 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 188 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 99% of its contemporaries.