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Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, June 2006
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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3 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
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11 X users
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12 Wikipedia pages
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1 Q&A thread
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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221 Mendeley
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5 CiteULike
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Title
Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution
Published in
Genome Biology, June 2006
DOI 10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-110
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jean-Michel Claverie

Abstract

The origins of viruses are shrouded in mystery, but advances in genomics and the discovery of highly complex giant DNA viruses have stimulated new hypotheses that DNA viruses were involved in the emergence of the eukaryotic cell nucleus, and that they are worthy of being considered as living organisms.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 1%
Germany 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 204 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 48 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 17%
Student > Bachelor 33 15%
Student > Master 25 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 32 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 107 48%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 45 20%
Environmental Science 6 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 1%
Other 19 9%
Unknown 36 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 March 2024.
All research outputs
#826,090
of 25,556,408 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#545
of 4,489 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,098
of 81,667 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#3
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,556,408 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,489 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 87% of its peers.
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