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Ants farm subterranean aphids mostly in single clone groups - an example of prudent husbandry for carbohydrates and proteins?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, July 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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2 blogs
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6 X users
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
Ants farm subterranean aphids mostly in single clone groups - an example of prudent husbandry for carbohydrates and proteins?
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-12-106
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Authors

Aniek BF Ivens, Daniel JC Kronauer, Ido Pen, Franz J Weissing, Jacobus J Boomsma

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 4 4%
Brazil 2 2%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 94 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 17%
Student > Bachelor 17 16%
Researcher 15 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 7%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 13 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 64 62%
Environmental Science 8 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Computer Science 1 <1%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 <1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 21 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 22 August 2022.
All research outputs
#2,236,026
of 25,901,238 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#556
of 3,738 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,278
of 178,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#8
of 57 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,738 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 57 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.