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The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a livebearer: 300 embryos found in one ‘megamamma’ supreme

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Biology of Fishes, July 1996
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#20 of 1,869)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
11 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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100 Dimensions

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162 Mendeley
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Title
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a livebearer: 300 embryos found in one ‘megamamma’ supreme
Published in
Environmental Biology of Fishes, July 1996
DOI 10.1007/bf00004997
Authors

Shoou-Jeng Joung, Che-Tsung Chen, Eugenie Clark, Senzo Uchida, William Y. P. Huang

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 162 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 2 1%
Mexico 2 1%
Australia 2 1%
United Arab Emirates 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mozambique 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 148 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 17%
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Bachelor 22 14%
Other 7 4%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 27 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 84 52%
Environmental Science 29 18%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 1%
Philosophy 1 <1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 36 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 14 May 2023.
All research outputs
#704,808
of 25,083,571 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Biology of Fishes
#20
of 1,869 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#149
of 29,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Biology of Fishes
#1
of 7 outputs
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