Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for altmetrics data (sourced from Altmetric Explorer) for 44,377 publications identified in the Dimensions database using the keyword “parasite” in the title and abstract AND year (2012–2019). The search was restricted to “articles”

Statistic	AASa	News	Blog	Twitter	Facebook	Wikipedia	F1000	Mendeley	Citations
Mean	9.16	0.50	0.15	7.58	0.39	0.07	0.02	40.26	15.53
Standard error	0.20	0.02	0.00	0.15	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.32	0.16
Median	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	25	7
Mode	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Standard deviation	41.20	4.06	0.79	32.01	3.48	0.42	0.19	66.42	32.80
Sample variance	1,697.13	16.51	0.63	1,024.81	12.10	0.17	0.04	4,411.00	1,075.34
Kurtosis	444.29	1,052.42	441.05	1,291.42	9,874.82	819.16	377.36	518.64	355.82
Skewness	17.15	25.39	15.00	28.03	82.81	19.19	13.50	15.20	13.63
Range	0–1,965	0–257	0–45	0–2,364	0–488	0–26	0–11	0–3,599	0–1,475
Sumb	406,340	22,038	6,830	336,372	17,510	2,974	1,063	1,786,437	689,162

^aAltmetric attention score.

^bTotal number of mentions for each metric.