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Exact replication: Foundation of science or game of chance?

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Biology, April 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
42 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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19 Dimensions

Readers on

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62 Mendeley
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Title
Exact replication: Foundation of science or game of chance?
Published in
PLoS Biology, April 2019
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000188
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sophie K. Piper, Ulrike Grittner, Andre Rex, Nico Riedel, Felix Fischer, Robert Nadon, Bob Siegerink, Ulrich Dirnagl

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 42 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 62 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 24%
Researcher 11 18%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Professor 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 12 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 8%
Mathematics 4 6%
Psychology 4 6%
Computer Science 3 5%
Other 17 27%
Unknown 18 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. 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 05 October 2023.
All research outputs
#472,954
of 25,918,104 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Biology
#952
of 9,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,455
of 370,014 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Biology
#27
of 128 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,918,104 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 9,163 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 47.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 370,014 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 128 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.