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| Title |
Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002932 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm, Brian Keane, Carl Ross |
| Abstract |
The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary isolation. Unlike the eastern Brazilian Amazon, it is still a largely intact ecosystem. Underlying this landscape are large reserves of oil and gas, many yet untapped. The growing global demand is leading to unprecedented exploration and development in the region. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 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 | 3 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| Brazil | 2 | 10% |
| Colombia | 1 | 5% |
| Peru | 1 | 5% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 5% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 10 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 86% |
| Scientists | 2 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 876 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 2% |
| Brazil | 10 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | <1% |
| Germany | 5 | <1% |
| Chile | 4 | <1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| Peru | 3 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 7 | <1% |
| Unknown | 817 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 144 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 135 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 130 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 127 | 14% |
| Other | 47 | 5% |
| Other | 170 | 19% |
| Unknown | 123 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 256 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 230 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 79 | 9% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 32 | 4% |
| Engineering | 27 | 3% |
| Other | 110 | 13% |
| Unknown | 142 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. 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 23 September 2022.
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#500,572
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#6,909
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#904
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#15
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Altmetric has tracked 25,550,333 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 222,786 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 96% of its peers.
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