You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, June 2003
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-3-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Menno Schilthuizen |
| Abstract |
Many groups of land snails show great interspecific diversity in shell ornamentation, which may include spines on the shell and flanges on the aperture. Such structures have been explained as camouflage or defence, but the possibility that they might be under sexual selection has not previously been explored. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 4 | 31% |
| Unknown | 9 | 69% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 92% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 105 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 4% |
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 93 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 24 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 20% |
| Unknown | 21 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 69 | 66% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 22 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 01 September 2013.
All research outputs
#1,867,887
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#451
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,050
of 53,739 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 53,739 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them