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Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, February 2008
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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144 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
262 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
Title
Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae
Published in
Nature, February 2008
DOI 10.1038/nature06558
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Christopher R. L. Thompson, Elizabeth Villegas, Jessica Svetz, Christopher Dinh, Anup Parikh, Richard Sucgang, Adam Kuspa, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller, Gad Shaulsky

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 262 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 3%
Germany 4 2%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Other 4 2%
Unknown 235 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 59 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 57 22%
Student > Bachelor 31 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 27 10%
Professor 16 6%
Other 48 18%
Unknown 24 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 154 59%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 33 13%
Physics and Astronomy 6 2%
Computer Science 5 2%
Environmental Science 5 2%
Other 22 8%
Unknown 37 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 17 September 2023.
All research outputs
#1,042,026
of 23,289,753 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#31,643
of 91,989 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,237
of 159,977 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#74
of 565 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,289,753 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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