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So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Systems Biology, March 2010
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Title
So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic?
Published in
BMC Systems Biology, March 2010
DOI 10.1186/1752-0509-4-22
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Authors

Derek Gatherer

Abstract

An old debate has undergone a resurgence in systems biology: that of reductionism versus holism. At least 35 articles in the systems biology literature since 2003 have touched on this issue. The histories of holism and reductionism in the philosophy of biology are reviewed, and the current debate in systems biology is placed in context.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 7 4%
Spain 3 2%
United States 3 2%
Mexico 3 2%
Germany 2 1%
Netherlands 2 1%
Brazil 2 1%
Argentina 2 1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 162 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 21%
Researcher 37 19%
Student > Master 26 13%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 7%
Other 41 21%
Unknown 20 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 88 45%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 6%
Engineering 10 5%
Psychology 7 4%
Other 42 22%
Unknown 21 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 August 2021.
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#4,730,812
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#5
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