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Born to be bee, fed to be worker? The caste system of a primitively eusocial insect

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Zoology, December 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 695)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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22 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
8 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages

Citations

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84 Mendeley
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Title
Born to be bee, fed to be worker? The caste system of a primitively eusocial insect
Published in
Frontiers in Zoology, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1742-9994-9-35
Pubmed ID
Authors

Nayuta Brand, Michel Chapuisat

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 84 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 1%
Austria 1 1%
Unknown 82 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 21%
Student > Bachelor 16 19%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Master 9 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 60%
Environmental Science 6 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 6%
Unspecified 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 15 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 190. 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 25 August 2022.
All research outputs
#209,820
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#11
of 695 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,264
of 286,439 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 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 695 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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