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Life is a Ponzi scheme

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, January 2009
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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 (88th percentile)

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123 X users
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
Life is a Ponzi scheme
Published in
Genome Biology, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/gb-2009-10-1-101
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gregory A Petsko

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 23 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 22%
Lecturer 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 26%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 9%
Social Sciences 2 9%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 4 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 93. 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 27 March 2023.
All research outputs
#464,172
of 25,728,855 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#252
of 4,508 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,355
of 188,327 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#3
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,728,855 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,508 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 188,327 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 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.