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The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, April 2013
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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 (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1200 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
13 Google+ users

Citations

dimensions_citation
219 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
276 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Title
The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms
Published in
PLOS ONE, April 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0061981
Pubmed ID
Authors

Delia Mocanu, Andrea Baronchelli, Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves, Qian Zhang, Alessandro Vespignani

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,200 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 276 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 3%
Spain 8 3%
Australia 4 1%
Brazil 3 1%
Germany 3 1%
Portugal 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 8 3%
Unknown 235 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 22%
Researcher 49 18%
Student > Master 39 14%
Student > Bachelor 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 7%
Other 55 20%
Unknown 30 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 65 24%
Social Sciences 48 17%
Physics and Astronomy 24 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 7%
Environmental Science 14 5%
Other 72 26%
Unknown 35 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 856. 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 24 October 2022.
All research outputs
#21,674
of 25,927,633 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#344
of 226,344 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96
of 211,394 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#7
of 5,164 outputs
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