This paper scored highest for Facebook, with 115 wall posts from 109 people. The paper’s overall Altmetric score of 1,981 includes 203 new stories from 156 news outlets, as well as 660 tweets from 627 users. The research found that a worldwide switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could reduce global mortality by up to 10% and food-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70% by 2050. This paper was published in March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), which also landed a paper in second place in last year’s list. In second place is “ Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change”, by lead author Dr Marco Springmann from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford. Overall, the paper’s score puts it in the top 5% of all journal articles in the Altmetric database. The paper – not the news stories – was also tweeted from 369 accounts and posted on 16 Facebook walls. The study made a particular splash in the US after further analysis, published in August by estate agent firm Zillow, highlighted that 1.8m of sea level rise by 2100 could put two million American homes underwater. It was featured in 386 news stories and was covered by – among 271 outlets in total – the BBC, Guardian, MailOnline, Independent, Huffington Post, New York Times, Washington Post and the New Yorker. The paper had more coverage in the news than another other climate paper published in 2016. Published in March, the study found that Antarctica has the potential to contribute more than a metre of sea level rise by 2100 and more than 15 metres by 2500, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. The highest scoring article of the year, with an Altmetric tally of 2,716, is the Nature paper “ Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise ”, by Prof Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts and Dr David Pollard of Penn State University. You can read more about how the Altmetric scoring system works in last year’s article. You can see the Top 10 in our infographic above (zoomable version here).Īltmetric scores academic papers based on how many times they’re mentioned in online news articles and on social media platforms. Using Altmetric, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 most talked-about climate papers of 2016. Every year, thousands of scientific journal papers are published by researchers across the world, but only a tiny proportion make it into the pages of the newspapers.
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