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The Geologically Recent Giant Impact Basins at Vesta’s South Pole

Overview of attention for article published in Science, May 2012
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
22 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
85 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 85 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
France 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 80 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 27%
Researcher 23 27%
Professor 6 7%
Student > Master 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 42 49%
Physics and Astronomy 26 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Design 1 1%
Unknown 15 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. 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 22 June 2025.
All research outputs
#1,153,740
of 28,575,537 outputs
Outputs from Science
#20,566
of 87,265 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,557
of 184,202 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#150
of 830 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,575,537 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 87,265 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 67.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 184,202 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 830 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.