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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Marginal Eyespots on Butterfly Wings Deflect Bird Attacks Under Low Light Intensities with UV Wavelengths
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0010798 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Martin Olofsson, Adrian Vallin, Sven Jakobsson, Christer Wiklund |
| Abstract |
Predators preferentially attack vital body parts to avoid prey escape. Consequently, prey adaptations that make predators attack less crucial body parts are expected to evolve. Marginal eyespots on butterfly wings have long been thought to have this deflective, but hitherto undemonstrated function. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 25 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 10 | 40% |
| Unknown | 15 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 88% |
| Scientists | 3 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 165 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 155 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 15% |
| Researcher | 23 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 10% |
| Unknown | 31 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 90 | 55% |
| Environmental Science | 18 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Engineering | 3 | 2% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 6 | 4% |
| Unknown | 39 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 22 September 2021.
All research outputs
#1,296,069
of 25,844,815 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#16,203
of 225,390 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,966
of 105,460 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#58
of 712 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,844,815 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 225,390 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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