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Minimum viable population size: not magic, but necessary

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, October 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
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policy
2 policy sources
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Title
Minimum viable population size: not magic, but necessary
Published in
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, October 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.006
Pubmed ID
Authors

Barry W. Brook, Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Lochran W. Traill, Richard Frankham

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 6 3%
United States 6 3%
Australia 5 2%
United Kingdom 3 1%
France 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 8 4%
Unknown 173 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 60 29%
Student > Master 36 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 17%
Professor 13 6%
Student > Bachelor 11 5%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 15 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 122 59%
Environmental Science 50 24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 1%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 <1%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 <1%
Other 7 3%
Unknown 22 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 09 September 2016.
All research outputs
#2,237,448
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#1,203
of 3,201 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,160
of 148,924 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#13
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,201 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 31.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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