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Careers of an elite cohort of U.S. basic life science postdoctoral fellows and the influence of their mentor's citation record

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, November 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
twitter
7 X users

Citations

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19 Dimensions

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56 Mendeley
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Title
Careers of an elite cohort of U.S. basic life science postdoctoral fellows and the influence of their mentor's citation record
Published in
BMC Medical Education, November 2010
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-10-80
Pubmed ID
Authors

David G Levitt

Abstract

There is general agreement that the number of U.S. science PhDs being trained far exceeds the number of future academic positions. One suggested approach to this problem is to significantly reduce the number of PhD positions. A counter argument is that students are aware of the limited academic positions but have chosen a PhD track because it opens other, non-academic, opportunities. The latter view requires that students have objective information about what careers options will be available for them.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 2 4%
Mexico 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Singapore 1 2%
Unknown 51 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Master 7 13%
Other 6 11%
Professor 4 7%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 8 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 9%
Psychology 4 7%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 13 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 25 April 2018.
All research outputs
#1,658,971
of 23,340,595 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#204
of 3,442 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,072
of 100,783 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#2
of 13 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,442 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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