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Terminating contamination: large-scale search identifies more than 2,000,000 contaminated entries in GenBank

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, May 2020
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Title
Terminating contamination: large-scale search identifies more than 2,000,000 contaminated entries in GenBank
Published in
Genome Biology, May 2020
DOI 10.1186/s13059-020-02023-1
Pubmed ID
Authors

Martin Steinegger, Steven L. Salzberg

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 210 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 210 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 21%
Researcher 43 20%
Student > Bachelor 24 11%
Student > Master 20 10%
Other 15 7%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 38 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 58 28%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 24%
Computer Science 12 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 4%
Environmental Science 8 4%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 46 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. 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 10 November 2023.
All research outputs
#571,039
of 25,870,142 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#331
of 4,526 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,710
of 422,374 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#10
of 72 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,870,142 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,526 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 92% 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 422,374 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 72 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.