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| Title |
Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Microbiome, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/2049-2618-1-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alexander Crits-Christoph, Courtney K Robinson, Tyler Barnum, W Florian Fricke, Alfonso F Davila, Bruno Jedynak, Christopher P McKay, Jocelyne DiRuggiero |
| Abstract |
The Atacama Desert is one of the driest deserts in the world and its soil, with extremely low moisture, organic carbon content, and oxidizing conditions, is considered to be at the dry limit for life. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 30% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 5% |
| Andorra | 1 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 6 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 55% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 25% |
| Scientists | 4 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 225 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 215 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 53 | 24% |
| Researcher | 45 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 34 | 15% |
| Unknown | 35 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 81 | 36% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 29 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 29 | 13% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 15 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 8% |
| Unknown | 42 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 24 April 2021.
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#2,381,267
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#935
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#27,057
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#4
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Altmetric has tracked 24,346,461 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,633 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 39.1. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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