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Should children get COVID vaccines? What the science says

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

Mentioned by

news
22 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
872 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
3 Redditors

Citations

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42 Dimensions

Readers on

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96 Mendeley
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Title
Should children get COVID vaccines? What the science says
Published by
Nature, July 2021
DOI 10.1038/d41586-021-01898-9
Pubmed ID
Authors

Heidi Ledford

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 96 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Other 5 5%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 37 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 5%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 40 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 801. 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 30 March 2022.
All research outputs
#23,957
of 25,718,113 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#2,301
of 98,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#967
of 447,635 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#80
of 926 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,718,113 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 98,574 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 926 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 91% of its contemporaries.