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The nature of human altruism

Access & Citations

  • 66k
    Article Accesses
  • 3002
    Citations

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Online attention

Altmetric score 191
  • 30 tweeters
  • 17 blogs
  • 1 Facebook pages
  • 1 Google+ users
  • 9 news outlets
  • 33 Redditors
  • 2 Video uploaders
  • 32 Wikipedia page
  • 3291 Mendeley
  • 26 Citeulike
  • 4 Connotea

This article is in the 99th percentile (ranked 202nd) of the 77,086 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 98th percentile (ranked 7th) of the 394 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature

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Mentions in news and blogs

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