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Seeing Distinct Groups Where There are None: Spurious Patterns from Between-Group PCA

Overview of attention for article published in Evolutionary Biology, October 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#40 of 340)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Title
Seeing Distinct Groups Where There are None: Spurious Patterns from Between-Group PCA
Published in
Evolutionary Biology, October 2019
DOI 10.1007/s11692-019-09487-5
Authors

Andrea Cardini, Paul O’Higgins, F. James Rohlf

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 97 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Professor 8 8%
Student > Master 7 7%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 15 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 42 43%
Environmental Science 8 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 5%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 23 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 05 May 2020.
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#2,110,323
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Outputs from Evolutionary Biology
#40
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#44,129
of 372,568 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolutionary Biology
#1
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So far Altmetric has tracked 340 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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