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Vampire bats have a clear run

Overview of attention for news story in Nature
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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 (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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1 news outlet
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1 Redditor

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Title
Vampire bats have a clear run
Published by
Nature, March 2005
DOI 10.1038/news050314-9
Authors

Narelle Towie

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 14%
Unknown 12 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 50%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 14%
Student > Master 1 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 1 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 50%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 14%
Psychology 2 14%
Environmental Science 1 7%
Physics and Astronomy 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 01 March 2021.
All research outputs
#2,804,052
of 22,831,537 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#46,702
of 90,945 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,218
of 59,307 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#147
of 397 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,831,537 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 90,945 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.4. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 397 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its contemporaries.