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Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Persistent Persister Misperceptions
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02134 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jun-Seob Kim, Thomas K Wood |
| Abstract |
Persister cells survive antibiotic treatment due to their lack of metabolism, rather than through genetic change, as shown via four seminal experiments conducted by the discoverers of the phenotype (Hobby et al., 1942; Bigger, 1944). Unfortunately, over seven decades of persister cell research, the literature has been populated by misperceptions that do not withstand scrutiny. This opinion piece examines some of those misunderstandings in the literature with the hope that by shining some light on these inaccuracies, the field may be advanced and subsequent manuscripts may be reviewed more critically. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Denmark | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 29 | 76% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 27 | 71% |
| Members of the public | 9 | 24% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 228 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 226 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 18% |
| Researcher | 31 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 29 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 11% |
| Unknown | 43 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 66 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 21% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 24 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 26 | 11% |
| Unknown | 51 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 19 January 2018.
All research outputs
#1,889,435
of 26,437,155 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#1,213
of 30,336 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,301
of 428,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#30
of 399 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,437,155 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 30,336 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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