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The global threat from plastic pollution

Overview of attention for article published in Science, July 2021
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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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
98 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
294 X users
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
1195 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1555 Mendeley
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Title
The global threat from plastic pollution
Published in
Science, July 2021
DOI 10.1126/science.abg5433
Pubmed ID
Authors

Matthew MacLeod, Hans Peter H Arp, Mine B Tekman, Annika Jahnke

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 1555 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 147 9%
Student > Bachelor 137 9%
Researcher 111 7%
Student > Master 109 7%
Unspecified 72 5%
Other 191 12%
Unknown 788 51%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 156 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 95 6%
Chemistry 76 5%
Unspecified 73 5%
Engineering 66 4%
Other 238 15%
Unknown 851 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 956. 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 04 September 2024.
All research outputs
#18,753
of 26,222,667 outputs
Outputs from Science
#897
of 82,544 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#745
of 458,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#29
of 834 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,222,667 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 82,544 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 67.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 458,476 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 834 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 96% of its contemporaries.