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Studying the silent side of birdsong

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Biology, August 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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1 tweeter

Citations

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Title
Studying the silent side of birdsong
Published in
BMC Biology, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12915-014-0062-8
Pubmed ID
25184387
Authors

Gonçalo C Cardoso

Abstract

The quality of complex communication signals, such as birdsong, is difficult to assess and compare across individuals or species. A new study on skylark song avoids the problem of signal complexity by assessing motor performance during the silent gaps of songs. This provides a metric of song quality applicable to species with very diverse songs, which facilitates novel types of analyses and comparisons in avian bioacoustics.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 26 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 4%
Costa Rica 1 4%
Unknown 24 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 23%
Researcher 4 15%
Student > Master 4 15%
Student > Bachelor 3 12%
Professor 2 8%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 3 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 65%
Environmental Science 3 12%
Computer Science 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Unknown 4 15%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 03 September 2014.
All research outputs
#3,112,789
of 22,759,618 outputs
Outputs from BMC Biology
#842
of 1,986 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,695
of 230,320 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Biology
#13
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,759,618 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,986 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its contemporaries.

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