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Why I don't use Instagram for science outreach

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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 (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
1351 X users
facebook
14 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Readers on

mendeley
10 Mendeley
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Title
Why I don't use Instagram for science outreach
Published by
Science, March 2018
DOI 10.1126/science.caredit.aat5907
Authors

Meghan Wright

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,351 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 10 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 30%
Lecturer 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Professor 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 10%
Computer Science 1 10%
Social Sciences 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 878. 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 March 2021.
All research outputs
#20,328
of 25,595,500 outputs
Outputs from Science
#974
of 83,131 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#427
of 352,330 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#28
of 1,270 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,595,500 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 83,131 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.8. 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 1,270 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 97% of its contemporaries.