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Food for thought

Overview of attention for news story in Nature
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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)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
twitter
41 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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4 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
39 Mendeley
Title
Food for thought
Published by
Nature, July 2014
DOI 10.1038/511264a
Pubmed ID
X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 39 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Canada 1 3%
Unknown 37 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 7 18%
Student > Master 7 18%
Student > Bachelor 5 13%
Researcher 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Other 12 31%
Unknown 2 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 18%
Psychology 5 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 14 36%
Unknown 2 5%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 12 August 2014.
All research outputs
#1,042,598
of 24,619,747 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#32,163
of 95,475 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,236
of 231,839 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#516
of 979 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,619,747 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.
So far Altmetric has tracked 95,475 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 101.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% 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 231,839 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 979 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.