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The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Letters, March 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
39 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
142 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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110 Mendeley
Title
The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected
Published in
Biology Letters, March 2020
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0950
Pubmed ID
Authors

Zackary A. Graham, Eva Garde, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Alexandre V. Palaoro

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 110 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 25%
Student > Master 10 9%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 8%
Professor 3 3%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 43 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 31%
Environmental Science 10 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 2%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 46 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 442. 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 31 January 2024.
All research outputs
#64,005
of 25,563,770 outputs
Outputs from Biology Letters
#70
of 3,429 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,171
of 391,761 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Letters
#5
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,563,770 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,429 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 60.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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