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by mrstew 4990 days ago
It's the Altmetric score I think.

https://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83337...

Based on number of tweets, blog posts, news stories etc.

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That’s right. We also apply a HN style decay to the scores, along with a boost for open content.