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Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Global Health Journal, July 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 3,791)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
70 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
962 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
44 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
92 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19
Published in
BMJ Global Health Journal, July 2021
DOI 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006653
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 92 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Other 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Professor 4 4%
Other 16 17%
Unknown 35 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 8%
Social Sciences 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 8%
Psychology 5 5%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Other 24 26%
Unknown 38 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1260. 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 29 October 2026.
All research outputs
#13,396
of 34,744,439 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Global Health Journal
#11
of 3,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#500
of 477,431 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Global Health Journal
#1
of 173 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,744,439 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 3,791 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 477,431 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 173 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 99% of its contemporaries.