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 |
The discovery of dendritic spines by Cajal
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, April 2015
|
| DOI | 10.3389/fnana.2015.00018 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rafael Yuste |
| Abstract |
Dendritic spines were considered an artifact of the Golgi method until a brash Spanish histologist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, bet his scientific career arguing that they were indeed real, correctly deducing their key role in mediating synaptic connectivity. This article reviews the historical context of the discovery of spines and the reasons behind Cajal's obsession with them, all the way till his deathbed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 205 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 190 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 16% |
| Researcher | 30 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 17 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 8% |
| Other | 30 | 15% |
| Unknown | 29 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 61 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 51 | 25% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 8% |
| Engineering | 8 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 28 | 14% |
| Unknown | 34 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 18 October 2021.
All research outputs
#1,759,548
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
#80
of 1,272 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,811
of 283,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
#1
of 40 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,272 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 283,493 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 40 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.