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Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?

Overview of attention for article published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics, January 2021
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
17 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
54 tweeters

Citations

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51 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
143 Mendeley
Summary News Blogs Twitter Dimensions citations
Title
Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?
Published in
Microplastics and Nanoplastics, January 2021
DOI 10.1186/s43591-020-00002-8
Authors

Francois Galgani, Aleke Stoefen-o Brien, Judith Weis, Christos Ioakeimidis, Qamar Schuyler, Iryna Makarenko, Huw Griffiths, Joan Bondareff, Dick Vethaak, Alan Deidun, Paula Sobral, Konstantinos Topouzelis, Penny Vlahos, Fernanda Lana, Martin Hassellov, Olivia Gerigny, Bera Arsonina, Archis Ambulkar, Maurizio Azzaro, Maria João Bebianno

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Twitter Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 54 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 143 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 143 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 17%
Researcher 18 13%
Student > Master 15 10%
Student > Bachelor 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 42 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 29 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 10%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 11 8%
Engineering 10 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 5%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 54 38%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 157. 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 November 2022.
All research outputs
#234,103
of 23,814,046 outputs
Outputs from Microplastics and Nanoplastics
#4
of 46 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,162
of 506,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microplastics and Nanoplastics
#2
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,814,046 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 46 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 37.2. This one scored the same or higher as 42 of them.
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 506,409 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.

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