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| Title |
Were Rivers Flowing across the Sahara During the Last Interglacial? Implications for Human Migration through Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0074834 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tom J. Coulthard, Jorge A. Ramirez, Nick Barton, Mike Rogerson, Tim Brücher |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 74 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 Kingdom | 17 | 23% |
| United States | 7 | 9% |
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Greece | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 39 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 56 | 76% |
| Scientists | 14 | 19% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 152 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 143 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 26% |
| Researcher | 35 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 9% |
| Professor | 12 | 8% |
| Other | 22 | 14% |
| Unknown | 14 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 42 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 25 | 16% |
| Arts and Humanities | 20 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 14 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 9% |
| Other | 17 | 11% |
| Unknown | 20 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 231. 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 21 March 2024.
All research outputs
#165,858
of 25,562,515 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#2,483
of 222,892 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,098
of 211,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#55
of 4,998 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,562,515 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 222,892 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 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4,998 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 98% of its contemporaries.