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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Daily sunscreen application and betacarotene supplementation in prevention of basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas of the skin: a randomised controlled trial
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Lancet, August 1999
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| DOI | 10.1016/s0140-6736(98)12168-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Adèle Green, Gail Williams, Rachel Nèale, Veronica Hart, David Leslie, Peter Parsons, Geoffrey C Marks, Philip Gaffney, Diana Battistutta, Christine Frost, Carolyn Lang, Anne Russell |
| Abstract |
The use of sunscreens on the skin can prevent sunburn but whether long-term use can prevent skin cancer is not known. Also, there is evidence that oral betacarotene supplementation lowers skin-cancer rates in animals, but there is limited evidence of its effect in human beings. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 3 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| Hungary | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |
| Argentina | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 3 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 352 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 345 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 48 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 9% |
| Researcher | 31 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 57 | 16% |
| Unknown | 139 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 99 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 15 | 4% |
| Chemistry | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 37 | 11% |
| Unknown | 149 | 42% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 405. 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 08 February 2024.
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#74,699
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#1,176
of 43,003 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12
of 35,474 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#2
of 212 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 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 43,003 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 68.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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