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The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 2014
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
52 news outlets
blogs
19 blogs
twitter
605 X users
facebook
22 Facebook pages
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
7 Google+ users
reddit
3 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators

Citations

dimensions_citation
74 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
145 Mendeley
Title
The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel
Published in
Science, December 2014
DOI 10.1126/science.1260807
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kenneth Catania

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 145 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Germany 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 133 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 23%
Researcher 23 16%
Student > Bachelor 16 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Student > Master 11 8%
Other 26 18%
Unknown 25 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 37%
Neuroscience 17 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 5%
Engineering 6 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 3%
Other 27 19%
Unknown 31 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 823. 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 14 January 2024.
All research outputs
#23,446
of 26,151,587 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,076
of 83,698 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#155
of 371,185 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#11
of 855 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,151,587 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 83,698 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 371,185 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 855 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.