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X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Title |
Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?
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Published in |
BMC Biology, March 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/jbiol125 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Virginia Walbot |
Abstract |
Good early training of graduate students and postdocs is needed to prevent them turning into future generations of manuscript-savaging reviewers. How can we intercalate typical papers into our training? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 164 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 55 | 34% |
United Kingdom | 13 | 8% |
Canada | 7 | 4% |
Australia | 4 | 2% |
Spain | 3 | 2% |
Germany | 2 | 1% |
Portugal | 2 | 1% |
Netherlands | 2 | 1% |
South Africa | 2 | 1% |
Other | 19 | 12% |
Unknown | 55 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 79 | 48% |
Scientists | 78 | 48% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 3% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 3,292 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 126 | 4% |
United Kingdom | 47 | 1% |
Brazil | 31 | <1% |
Germany | 30 | <1% |
Canada | 18 | <1% |
Japan | 16 | <1% |
France | 16 | <1% |
Spain | 15 | <1% |
Switzerland | 12 | <1% |
Other | 91 | 3% |
Unknown | 2890 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 814 | 25% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 538 | 16% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 433 | 13% |
Professor | 387 | 12% |
Other | 213 | 6% |
Other | 591 | 18% |
Unknown | 316 | 10% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 763 | 23% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 555 | 17% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 194 | 6% |
Physics and Astronomy | 174 | 5% |
Engineering | 141 | 4% |
Other | 1089 | 33% |
Unknown | 376 | 11% |