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A back seat for basic science

Access & Citations

  • 500
    Article Accesses
  • 9
    Citations

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Online attention

Altmetric score 88
  • 71 tweeters
  • 6 blogs
  • 3 Facebook pages
  • 1 Google+ users
  • 5 news outlets
  • 2 Redditors
  • 10 Mendeley

This article is in the 98th percentile (ranked 3,205th) of the 213,588 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 70th percentile (ranked 302nd) of the 1,012 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature

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Mentions in news and blogs

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