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We shouldn’t worry when a virus mutates during disease outbreaks

Access & Citations

  • 154k
    Article Accesses
  • 164
    Citations

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Online attention

Altmetric score 1615
  • 1693 tweeters
  • 6 blogs
  • 4 Facebook pages
  • 85 news outlets
  • 211 Redditors
  • 1 Video uploaders
  • 4 Wikipedia page
  • 479 Mendeley

This article is in the 99th percentile (ranked 282nd) of the 402,409 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 96th percentile (ranked 2nd) of the 54 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Microbiology

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Altmetric calculates a score based on the online attention an article receives. The donut visual summarises attention from different sources; a breakdown is shown in the legend. The number in the centre is the Altmetric score. Social media and mainstream news media are the main sources that calculate the score. Reference managers such as Mendeley are also tracked but do not contribute to the score. Older articles often score higher because they have had more time to get noticed. To account for this, Altmetric has included the context data for other articles of a similar age.

Mentions in news and blogs

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