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The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics

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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1120 X users
facebook
63 Facebook pages
googleplus
42 Google+ users
reddit
12 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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Readers on

mendeley
32 Mendeley
Title
The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics
Published by
Nature, July 2016
DOI 10.1038/535338a
Pubmed ID
Authors

Brendan Borrell

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 31 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 22%
Student > Master 5 16%
Researcher 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Professor 3 9%
Other 6 19%
Unknown 2 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 9 28%
Physics and Astronomy 7 22%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 9%
Sports and Recreations 3 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 3 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 909. 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 28 July 2023.
All research outputs
#19,333
of 25,782,229 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#1,905
of 98,718 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#312
of 379,381 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#37
of 952 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,782,229 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 98,718 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 98% 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 379,381 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 952 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 96% of its contemporaries.