The work has been published in the journal Zoological Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2008, it was in position 60/125, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Zoology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Animal Science and Zoology.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-08-05:

• WoS: 11
• Scopus: 11

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-05:

• The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 4.
• The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

• The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
• The number of mentions on Wikipedia: 1 (Altmetric).

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Coca Abia, María del Milagro) and Last Author (Coca Abia, María del Milagro).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Coca Abia, María del Milagro.