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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

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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
304 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
twitter
5096 tweeters
facebook
7 Facebook pages
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
reddit
10 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
7 Mendeley
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Title
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Published by
Nature, April 2023
DOI 10.1038/d41586-023-01313-5
Pubmed ID
Authors

Matthew Cobb, Nathaniel Comfort

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 43%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 14%
Unspecified 1 14%
Student > Bachelor 1 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 14%
Other 0 0%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 29%
Philosophy 1 14%
Environmental Science 1 14%
Unspecified 1 14%
Computer Science 1 14%
Other 1 14%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4606. 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 08 June 2023.
All research outputs
#892
of 23,975,876 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#84
of 93,394 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20
of 381,775 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#3
of 1,067 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,975,876 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 93,394 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 101.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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