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A historical reflection on the discovery of human retroviruses

Overview of attention for article published in Retrovirology, May 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#47 of 1,126)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

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2 news outlets
twitter
13 tweeters
video
2 video uploaders

Citations

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24 Dimensions

Readers on

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134 Mendeley
Title
A historical reflection on the discovery of human retroviruses
Published in
Retrovirology, May 2009
DOI 10.1186/1742-4690-6-40
Pubmed ID
Authors

Anders Vahlne

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 128 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 21%
Student > Master 22 16%
Researcher 20 15%
Student > Bachelor 20 15%
Professor 3 2%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 28 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 26 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 5%
Chemistry 3 2%
Other 16 12%
Unknown 36 27%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 21 May 2023.
All research outputs
#1,268,102
of 23,910,532 outputs
Outputs from Retrovirology
#47
of 1,126 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,336
of 95,174 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Retrovirology
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,910,532 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,126 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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