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A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2020
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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 (91st percentile)

Mentioned by

news
30 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
103 X users
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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40 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
72 Mendeley
Title
A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting
Published in
Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0
Pubmed ID
Authors

Nicholas J. Conard, Jordi Serangeli, Gerlinde Bigga, Veerle Rots

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 72 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Master 7 10%
Professor 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 15 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 27 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 6%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 25 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 354. 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 11 October 2023.
All research outputs
#91,255
of 25,425,223 outputs
Outputs from Nature Ecology & Evolution
#217
of 2,147 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,357
of 402,830 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Ecology & Evolution
#7
of 69 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,425,223 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 2,147 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 149.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 69 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 91% of its contemporaries.