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Editorial
. 2018 Apr;46(3):252-255.
doi: 10.1177/0192623318758294. Epub 2018 Feb 15.

The Altmetric Attention Score: What Does It Mean and Why Should I Care?

Susan A Elmore  1   2
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Editorial

The Altmetric Attention Score: What Does It Mean and Why Should I Care?

Susan A Elmore. Toxicol Pathol. 2018 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: altmetrics; attention score; social media.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests Statement

The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1
Colors of the Altmetric Score each represent a different source. The amount of each color will change depending on which sources a research output has received attention from. Because the attention from many of the sources are real-time or daily feeds, the colors of the donut and the score may change daily. Figure reproduced from https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/the-donut-and-score/ and last accessed 12/05/2017.
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