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A letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his new theory about light and colors: sent by the author to the publisher from Cambridge, Febr.

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, January 1997
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 1,092)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

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1 news outlet
blogs
14 blogs
twitter
369 X users
facebook
13 Facebook pages
wikipedia
19 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
22 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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195 Dimensions

Readers on

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233 Mendeley
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6 CiteULike
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Title
A letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his new theory about light and colors: sent by the author to the publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6. 1671/72; in order to be communicated to the R. Society
Published in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, January 1997
DOI 10.1098/rstl.1671.0072
Authors

Isaac Newton

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 369 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 233 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 4%
United Kingdom 4 2%
Brazil 4 2%
Germany 3 1%
Spain 3 1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Other 8 3%
Unknown 196 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 60 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 58 25%
Student > Master 20 9%
Professor 15 6%
Student > Bachelor 15 6%
Other 45 19%
Unknown 20 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 57 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 29 12%
Engineering 26 11%
Chemistry 21 9%
Materials Science 12 5%
Other 65 28%
Unknown 23 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 394. 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
#77,669
of 25,541,640 outputs
Outputs from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
#1
of 1,092 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29
of 92,958 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
#1
of 1,091 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,541,640 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 1,092 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 1,091 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.