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Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found

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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
141 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
twitter
1204 X users
facebook
59 Facebook pages
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
15 Google+ users
reddit
8 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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Readers on

mendeley
38 Mendeley
Title
Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found
Published by
Nature, February 2017
DOI 10.1038/542289a
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mario Livio

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 2 5%
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 35 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 16%
Other 5 13%
Student > Master 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 5 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 16%
Physics and Astronomy 6 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 13%
Computer Science 2 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Other 9 24%
Unknown 8 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2134. 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 03 October 2023.
All research outputs
#4,171
of 25,746,891 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#436
of 98,656 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52
of 320,392 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#9
of 906 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,746,891 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 98,656 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.7. 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 906 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.