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Satellite mega-constellations create risks in Low Earth Orbit, the atmosphere and on Earth

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, May 2021
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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
87 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
162 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
8 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
92 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
135 Mendeley
Title
Satellite mega-constellations create risks in Low Earth Orbit, the atmosphere and on Earth
Published in
Scientific Reports, May 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-89909-7
Pubmed ID
Authors

Aaron C. Boley, Michael Byers

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 135 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Student > Master 12 9%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Researcher 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 73 54%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 25 19%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Physics and Astronomy 7 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Materials Science 3 2%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 75 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 833. 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 15 March 2024.
All research outputs
#22,183
of 25,579,912 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#352
of 141,847 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#875
of 458,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#11
of 4,525 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,579,912 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 141,847 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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