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Has giant LIGO experiment seen gravitational waves?

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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
27 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
twitter
351 X users
facebook
22 Facebook pages
googleplus
32 Google+ users
reddit
2 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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2 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
18 Mendeley
Title
Has giant LIGO experiment seen gravitational waves?
Published by
Nature, September 2015
DOI 10.1038/nature.2015.18449
Authors

Davide Castelvecchi

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 1 6%
Student > Postgraduate 1 6%
Unknown 16 89%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 1 6%
Physics and Astronomy 1 6%
Unknown 16 89%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 548. 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 26 December 2019.
All research outputs
#44,917
of 25,641,627 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#3,803
of 98,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#442
of 286,923 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#73
of 1,040 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,641,627 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 98,441 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 286,923 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,040 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 92% of its contemporaries.