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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Revisiting Paine's 1966 Sea Star Removal Experiment, the Most-Cited Empirical Article in the American Naturalist.
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| Published in |
The American Naturalist, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1086/688045 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kevin D Lafferty, Thomas H Suchanek |
| Abstract |
"Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity" (Paine 1966) is the most-cited empirical article published in the American Naturalist. In short, Paine removed predatory sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) from the rocky intertidal and watched the key prey species, mussels (Mytilus californianus), crowd out seven subordinate primary space-holding species. However, because these mussels are a foundational species, they provide three-dimensional habitat for over 300 associated species inhabiting the mussel beds; thus, removing sea stars significantly increases community-wide diversity. In any case, most ecologists cite Paine (1966) to support a statement that predators increase diversity by interfering with competition. Although detractors remained skeptical of top-down effects and keystone concepts, the paradigm that predation increases diversity spread. By 1991, "Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity" was considered a classic ecological paper, and after 50 years it continues to influence ecological theory and conservation biology. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 19% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 17 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 48% |
| Scientists | 14 | 45% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 177 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 18% |
| Researcher | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 13% |
| Unknown | 30 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 90 | 50% |
| Environmental Science | 40 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 1% |
| Psychology | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 35 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 11 September 2020.
All research outputs
#2,171,340
of 26,407,726 outputs
Outputs from The American Naturalist
#552
of 4,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,996
of 382,290 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The American Naturalist
#6
of 37 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,122 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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