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Defining bacterial species in the genomic era: insights from the genus Acinetobacter

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, December 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 3,330)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
Defining bacterial species in the genomic era: insights from the genus Acinetobacter
Published in
BMC Microbiology, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-12-302
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Authors

Jacqueline Z-M Chan, Mihail R Halachev, Nicholas J Loman, Chrystala Constantinidou, Mark J Pallen

Abstract

Microbial taxonomy remains a conservative discipline, relying on phenotypic information derived from growth in pure culture and techniques that are time-consuming and difficult to standardize, particularly when compared to the ease of modern high-throughput genome sequencing. Here, drawing on the genus Acinetobacter as a test case, we examine whether bacterial taxonomy could abandon phenotypic approaches and DNA-DNA hybridization and, instead, rely exclusively on analyses of genome sequence data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 2%
United Kingdom 4 1%
Germany 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 5 2%
Unknown 300 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 72 22%
Researcher 63 19%
Student > Master 42 13%
Student > Bachelor 36 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 8%
Other 54 16%
Unknown 36 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 153 47%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 63 19%
Immunology and Microbiology 23 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 4%
Chemistry 7 2%
Other 18 5%
Unknown 51 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 05 January 2023.
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#1,149,811
of 24,216,270 outputs
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#46
of 3,330 outputs
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#9,923
of 288,805 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#2
of 95 outputs
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