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Human Fatalities Resulting From Dog Attacks in the United States, 1979–2005

Overview of attention for article published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, March 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 1,074)
  • 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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32 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
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155 X users
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2 Facebook pages
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5 Wikipedia pages
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1 YouTube creator

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Title
Human Fatalities Resulting From Dog Attacks in the United States, 1979–2005
Published in
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, March 2009
DOI 10.1580/08-weme-or-213.1
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ricky L. Langley

Abstract

Dog attacks are a major public health concern worldwide. Dogs bite over 4 million people resulting in the hospitalization of 6000 to 13,000 people each year in the United States. Rarely deaths may occur after an attack.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 81 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 12 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Student > Master 11 13%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 17 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 24 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 393. 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 28 November 2023.
All research outputs
#78,017
of 25,571,620 outputs
Outputs from Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
#4
of 1,074 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#136
of 108,977 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
#1
of 10 outputs
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