↓ Skip to main content

Major historical dietary changes are reflected in the dental microbiome of ancient skeletons

Overview of attention for article published in Investigative Genetics, May 2013
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
3 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
49 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Major historical dietary changes are reflected in the dental microbiome of ancient skeletons
Published in
Investigative Genetics, May 2013
DOI 10.1186/2041-2223-4-10
Pubmed ID
Authors

Antti Sajantila

Abstract

The post-industrial lifestyle has many disadvantageous effects on our health. One of the factors is modern nutrition, which has been associated with epidemic burdens, such as obesity and cardiovascular diseases. At least two major shifts have occurred in the nutritional history of humans: the use of carbohydrate-rich diets which were adopted around 10,000 years BP due to Neolithic farming, and later the influence of industrially processed flour and white sugar after the industrial revolution in the 1850s. In a recent paper in Nature Genetics Adler et al. used a novel approach to see how these dietary changes affected the oral microbiome by analyzing the ancient microbial DNA in the calcified dental plaque from 34 early European skeletons.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Finland 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Portugal 1 2%
Unknown 46 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 22%
Researcher 8 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Other 4 8%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 7 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 10%
Social Sciences 4 8%
Chemistry 3 6%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 9 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 01 July 2014.
All research outputs
#18,348,542
of 22,723,682 outputs
Outputs from Investigative Genetics
#88
of 97 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#147,520
of 196,386 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Investigative Genetics
#4
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,723,682 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 11th percentile – i.e., 11% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 97 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.1. This one is in the 3rd percentile – i.e., 3% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 196,386 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 12th percentile – i.e., 12% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.