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The “Anthropocene” epoch: Scientific decision or political statement?

Overview of attention for article published in GSA Today, March 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#19 of 162)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
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1 X user
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2 Facebook pages

Citations

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129 Dimensions

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217 Mendeley
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Title
The “Anthropocene” epoch: Scientific decision or political statement?
Published in
GSA Today, March 2016
DOI 10.1130/gsatg270a.1
Authors

Stanley C. Finney, Lucy E. Edwards

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 214 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 40 18%
Student > Master 31 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 14%
Researcher 24 11%
Other 14 6%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 40 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 62 29%
Environmental Science 37 17%
Social Sciences 23 11%
Arts and Humanities 14 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 6%
Other 24 11%
Unknown 44 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 25 April 2024.
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#1,030,376
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from GSA Today
#19
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Outputs of similar age
#17,515
of 312,604 outputs
Outputs of similar age from GSA Today
#1
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So far Altmetric has tracked 162 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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