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Human races are not like dog breeds: refuting a racist analogy

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution: Education and Outreach, July 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 469)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
721 X users
facebook
7 Facebook pages
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
reddit
6 Redditors

Citations

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21 Dimensions

Readers on

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110 Mendeley
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Title
Human races are not like dog breeds: refuting a racist analogy
Published in
Evolution: Education and Outreach, July 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12052-019-0109-y
Authors

Heather L. Norton, Ellen E. Quillen, Abigail W. Bigham, Laurel N. Pearson, Holly Dunsworth

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 110 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 16%
Researcher 16 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 10%
Other 9 8%
Student > Master 7 6%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 31 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 12%
Social Sciences 11 10%
Psychology 5 5%
Environmental Science 3 3%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 35 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 608. 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 27 March 2024.
All research outputs
#37,600
of 25,587,485 outputs
Outputs from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#2
of 469 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#720
of 360,881 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,587,485 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 469 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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