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Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 3,717)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

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12 news outlets
blogs
18 blogs
twitter
41 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
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2 YouTube creators

Citations

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206 Dimensions

Readers on

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555 Mendeley
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3 CiteULike
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Title
Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2011
DOI 10.1186/1472-6785-11-13
Pubmed ID
Authors

David P Hughes, Sandra B Andersen, Nigel L Hywel-Jones, Winanda Himaman, Johan Billen, Jacobus J Boomsma

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 12 2%
Brazil 6 1%
Germany 5 <1%
Japan 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Other 7 1%
Unknown 513 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 132 24%
Student > Master 88 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 84 15%
Researcher 53 10%
Other 23 4%
Other 91 16%
Unknown 84 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 245 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 60 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 35 6%
Environmental Science 24 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 2%
Other 73 13%
Unknown 105 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 242. 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 13 November 2023.
All research outputs
#155,865
of 25,506,250 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#17
of 3,717 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#428
of 121,356 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1
of 64 outputs
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