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Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution: Education and Outreach, April 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 468)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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30 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
142 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
video
3 YouTube creators

Citations

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349 Dimensions

Readers on

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1009 Mendeley
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6 CiteULike
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Title
Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions
Published in
Evolution: Education and Outreach, April 2009
DOI 10.1007/s12052-009-0128-1
Authors

T. Ryan Gregory

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 21 2%
Argentina 6 <1%
Canada 6 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Indonesia 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Other 13 1%
Unknown 948 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 169 17%
Student > Master 144 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 137 14%
Researcher 109 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 39 4%
Other 158 16%
Unknown 253 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 300 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 108 11%
Social Sciences 77 8%
Psychology 45 4%
Environmental Science 34 3%
Other 169 17%
Unknown 276 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 372. 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 21 February 2024.
All research outputs
#85,031
of 25,545,162 outputs
Outputs from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#5
of 468 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#139
of 107,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#2
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,545,162 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 468 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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 93% of its contemporaries.