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Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2006
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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 (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
6 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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717 Dimensions

Readers on

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1456 Mendeley
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5 CiteULike
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Title
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?
Published in
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2006
DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2006.04.007
Pubmed ID
Authors

Peter J. Hudson, Andrew P. Dobson, Kevin D. Lafferty

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 28 2%
Brazil 14 <1%
Mexico 7 <1%
South Africa 6 <1%
Chile 5 <1%
France 5 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Poland 3 <1%
Other 33 2%
Unknown 1348 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 322 22%
Researcher 244 17%
Student > Master 219 15%
Student > Bachelor 168 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 81 6%
Other 229 16%
Unknown 193 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 835 57%
Environmental Science 202 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 61 4%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 28 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 21 1%
Other 72 5%
Unknown 237 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 116. 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 09 August 2024.
All research outputs
#383,855
of 26,445,299 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#204
of 3,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#478
of 89,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#3
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,445,299 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,282 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.