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Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, January 2013
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Title
Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation
Published in
Current Biology, January 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2012.12.034
Pubmed ID
Authors

Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke H. Scholtz, Eric J. Warrant

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 2%
Germany 7 1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 8 2%
Unknown 476 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 107 21%
Researcher 88 17%
Student > Bachelor 77 15%
Student > Master 61 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 5%
Other 84 16%
Unknown 72 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 249 49%
Environmental Science 37 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 26 5%
Neuroscience 21 4%
Engineering 15 3%
Other 76 15%
Unknown 89 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1222. 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 27 September 2024.
All research outputs
#12,342
of 26,737,020 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#130
of 15,088 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40
of 293,457 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#1
of 130 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,737,020 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 15,088 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 64.2. 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 130 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.