You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
We simply cannot go on being so vague about ‘function’
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Genome Biology, December 2018
|
| DOI | 10.1186/s13059-018-1600-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
W. Ford Doolittle |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 194 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 | 41 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 27 | 14% |
| Spain | 9 | 5% |
| Canada | 8 | 4% |
| Australia | 7 | 4% |
| Germany | 7 | 4% |
| France | 6 | 3% |
| Norway | 5 | 3% |
| Sweden | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 28 | 14% |
| Unknown | 53 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 112 | 58% |
| Members of the public | 76 | 39% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 106 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 31 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 25% |
| Professor | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 9% |
| Unknown | 17 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 37 | 35% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 28 | 26% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Unknown | 22 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 126. 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 16 March 2023.
All research outputs
#336,104
of 25,721,020 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#147
of 4,507 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,180
of 446,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#7
of 68 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,721,020 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 4,507 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 446,294 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 68 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.