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The attraction of virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) to cadavers by a combination of decomposition odour and male sex pheromones

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Zoology, August 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Title
The attraction of virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) to cadavers by a combination of decomposition odour and male sex pheromones
Published in
Frontiers in Zoology, August 2012
DOI 10.1186/1742-9994-9-18
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Authors

Christian von Hoermann, Joachim Ruther, Manfred Ayasse

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 59 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 20 33%
Student > Master 10 17%
Researcher 8 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 6 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 58%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 7%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 8 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 28 November 2012.
All research outputs
#2,418,099
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#144
of 695 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,690
of 186,199 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#2
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 695 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
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