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The present-day number of tectonic plates

Overview of attention for article published in Earth, Planets and Space, March 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 1,472)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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3 news outlets
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6 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
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1 YouTube creator

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30 Mendeley
Title
The present-day number of tectonic plates
Published in
Earth, Planets and Space, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40623-016-0400-x
Authors

Christopher G. A. Harrison

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Unknown 28 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 20%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Master 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Other 8 27%
Unknown 5 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 16 53%
Environmental Science 3 10%
Engineering 3 10%
Physics and Astronomy 1 3%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 15 September 2023.
All research outputs
#1,261,084
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Earth, Planets and Space
#33
of 1,472 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,057
of 312,874 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Earth, Planets and Space
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,472 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 312,874 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 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 96% of its contemporaries.