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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life: What About the Viruses?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Astrobiology, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1089/ast.2012.0959 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dale Warren Griffin |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 46% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 77% |
| Scientists | 2 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Russia | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 50 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 32% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
| Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 35% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 12% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 5 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 7% |
| Engineering | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 21% |
| Unknown | 6 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 31 March 2024.
All research outputs
#984,378
of 25,658,139 outputs
Outputs from Astrobiology
#231
of 1,405 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,065
of 210,726 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Astrobiology
#4
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,658,139 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,405 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its contemporaries.