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Focus on African diversity confirms complexity of skin pigmentation genetics

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, January 2018
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
Focus on African diversity confirms complexity of skin pigmentation genetics
Published in
Genome Biology, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13059-018-1395-3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Tina Lasisi, Mark D. Shriver

Abstract

Renewed focus on African populations confirms the complexity of skin pigmentation genetics, and suggests future directions for pigmentation research.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Professor 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 9 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 20%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 10 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 09 July 2021.
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#1,050,744
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#750
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Outputs of similar age
#24,475
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Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#16
of 48 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,492 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 well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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