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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 (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
16 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
twitter
100 tweeters
facebook
4 Facebook pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
955 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1553 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike

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Title
Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet
Published in
Science, June 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.aaa2478
Pubmed ID
26068858
Authors

Roland Kays, Margaret C. Crofoot, Walter Jetz, Martin Wikelski

Abstract

Moving animals connect our world, spreading pollen, seeds, nutrients, and parasites as they go about the their daily lives. Recent integration of high-resolution Global Positioning System and other sensors into miniaturized tracking tags has dramatically improved our ability to describe animal movement. This has created opportunities and challenges that parallel big data transformations in other fields and has rapidly advanced animal ecology and physiology. New analytical approaches, combined with remotely sensed or modeled environmental information, have opened up a host of new questions on the causes of movement and its consequences for individuals, populations, and ecosystems. Simultaneous tracking of multiple animals is leading to new insights on species interactions and, scaled up, may enable distributed monitoring of both animals and our changing environment.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,553 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 <1%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Canada 5 <1%
Brazil 5 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Other 11 <1%
Unknown 1499 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 352 23%
Student > Master 264 17%
Researcher 254 16%
Student > Bachelor 181 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 74 5%
Other 209 13%
Unknown 219 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 697 45%
Environmental Science 313 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 41 3%
Engineering 32 2%
Other 135 9%
Unknown 293 19%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 256. 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 23 March 2023.
All research outputs
#124,569
of 23,420,064 outputs
Outputs from Science
#4,007
of 78,514 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,318
of 266,241 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#64
of 1,241 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,420,064 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 78,514 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 1,241 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 94% of its contemporaries.