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Could a potential Anthropocene mass extinction define a new geological period?

Overview of attention for article published in The Anthropocene Review, September 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)

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Title
Could a potential Anthropocene mass extinction define a new geological period?
Published in
The Anthropocene Review, September 2016
DOI 10.1177/2053019616666867
Authors

Karen L Bacon, Graeme T Swindles

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 42 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 24%
Student > Master 7 16%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Other 3 7%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 7 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 12 27%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 16%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 9 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 17 November 2023.
All research outputs
#4,732,549
of 26,239,416 outputs
Outputs from The Anthropocene Review
#134
of 218 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,212
of 314,633 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Anthropocene Review
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,239,416 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 218 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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