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A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Direct, June 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 537)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
twitter
52 X users
facebook
7 Facebook pages
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
6 Google+ users
linkedin
1 LinkedIn user
reddit
1 Redditor
q&a
1 Q&A thread

Citations

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137 Dimensions

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Title
A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses
Published in
Biology Direct, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1745-6150-7-13
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Authors

Geoffrey S Diemer, Kenneth M Stedman

Abstract

Viruses are known to be the most abundant organisms on earth, yet little is known about their collective origin and evolutionary history. With exceptionally high rates of genetic mutation and mosaicism, it is not currently possible to resolve deep evolutionary histories of the known major virus groups. Metagenomics offers a potential means of establishing a more comprehensive view of viral evolution as vast amounts of new sequence data becomes available for comparative analysis.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Brazil 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 6 2%
Unknown 243 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 60 23%
Researcher 48 18%
Student > Master 28 11%
Student > Bachelor 28 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 58 22%
Unknown 22 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 132 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 16 6%
Environmental Science 9 3%
Computer Science 8 3%
Other 28 11%
Unknown 34 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 139. 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 20 July 2022.
All research outputs
#298,683
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Biology Direct
#4
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,336
of 181,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Direct
#1
of 10 outputs
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