A paper by assistant professors Dave Keiser, Gabriel Lade, and Ivan Rudik (Cornell) about air pollution and national parks visitation has received substantial media attention since it was accepted by the journal Science Advances July 18.
As of July 25, the Altmetrics attention score is in the 99th percentile of all outputs ever covered by Altmetrics (top 4,543 out of over 11.5 million outputs). This study is ranked #2 output for all Science Advances papers of a similar age and is in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. They can include (but are not limited to) peer reviews on Faculty of 1000, citations on Wikipedia and in public policy documents, discussions on research blogs, mainstream media coverage, bookmarks on reference managers like Mendeley, and mentions on social networks such as Twitter