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Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, January 2010
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
38 news outlets
blogs
21 blogs
twitter
20 X users
wikipedia
28 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
video
6 YouTube creators

Citations

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Readers on

mendeley
388 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
Title
Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds
Published in
Nature, January 2010
DOI 10.1038/nature08740
Pubmed ID
Authors

Fucheng Zhang, Stuart L. Kearns, Patrick J. Orr, Michael J. Benton, Zhonghe Zhou, Diane Johnson, Xing Xu, Xiaolin Wang

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 3%
United Kingdom 5 1%
France 5 1%
Canada 3 <1%
Chile 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Other 7 2%
Unknown 347 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 72 19%
Student > Bachelor 60 15%
Researcher 59 15%
Student > Master 45 12%
Professor 24 6%
Other 81 21%
Unknown 47 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 162 42%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 102 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 5%
Environmental Science 12 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 2%
Other 32 8%
Unknown 56 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 425. 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 01 March 2024.
All research outputs
#67,870
of 25,416,581 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#5,180
of 97,903 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#174
of 172,292 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#6
of 508 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,416,581 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 97,903 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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