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Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme

Overview of attention for article published in Giga Science, July 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#29 of 1,172)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
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7 blogs
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77 X users
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1 peer review site
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Title
Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme
Published in
Giga Science, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/2047-217x-1-6
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Authors

Jonathan A Eisen

Abstract

Languages and cultures, like organisms, are constantly evolving. Words, like genes, can come and go-spreading around or going extinct. Here I discuss the spread of one small subset of words that are meant to convey "comprehensiveness" in some way: the "omes" and other words derived from "genome" or "genomics." I focus on a bad aspect of this spread the use of what I refer to as "badomics" words. I discuss why these should be considered bad and how to distinguish badomics words from good ones.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 13 12%
Canada 4 4%
Germany 3 3%
France 2 2%
Hong Kong 2 2%
Brazil 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 77 71%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 25%
Researcher 26 24%
Student > Master 11 10%
Other 9 8%
Professor 7 6%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 8 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 55 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 16%
Computer Science 4 4%
Philosophy 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 11 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 107. 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 29 September 2023.
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#395,919
of 25,529,543 outputs
Outputs from Giga Science
#29
of 1,172 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,809
of 178,178 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Giga Science
#1
of 12 outputs
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