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Melatonin may decrease risk for and aid treatment of COVID-19 and other RNA viral infections

Overview of attention for article published in Open Heart, March 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#22 of 1,416)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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25 news outlets
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346 X users
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18 Redditors
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2 YouTube creators

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69 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Melatonin may decrease risk for and aid treatment of COVID-19 and other RNA viral infections
Published in
Open Heart, March 2021
DOI 10.1136/openhrt-2020-001568
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 4%
Other 2 3%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 40 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Engineering 2 3%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 43 62%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 435. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 February 2025.
All research outputs
#83,649
of 34,666,990 outputs
Outputs from Open Heart
#22
of 1,416 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,260
of 481,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Open Heart
#2
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,666,990 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,416 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 481,925 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 49 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.