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Nearest-neighbour clusters as a novel technique for assessing group associations

Overview of attention for article published in Royal Society Open Science, January 2015
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Title
Nearest-neighbour clusters as a novel technique for assessing group associations
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Royal Society Open Science, January 2015
DOI 10.1098/rsos.140232
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Sean A. Rands

Abstract

When all the individuals in a social group can be easily identified, one of the simplest measures of social interaction that can be recorded is nearest-neighbour identity. Many field studies use sequential scan samples of groups to build up association metrics using these nearest-neighbour identities. Here, I describe a simple technique for identifying clusters of associated individuals within groups that uses nearest-neighbour identity data. Using computer-generated datasets with known associations, I demonstrate that this clustering technique can be used to build data suitable for association metrics, and that it can generate comparable metrics to raw nearest-neighbour data, but with much less initial data. This technique could therefore be of use where it is difficult to generate large datasets. Other situations where the technique would be useful are discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 3%
Unknown 36 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 30%
Researcher 7 19%
Unspecified 4 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 3 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 46%
Unspecified 4 11%
Psychology 4 11%
Computer Science 2 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 7 19%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 January 2015.
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#5,533,187
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#2,120
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#73,880
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#18
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