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Neurodegenerative disease risk among former international rugby union players

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry, October 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 8,865)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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90 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
183 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
11 Redditors

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126 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Neurodegenerative disease risk among former international rugby union players
Published in
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry, October 2022
DOI 10.1136/jnnp-2022-329675
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 126 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Researcher 9 7%
Other 7 6%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Student > Master 5 4%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 65 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 14 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 10%
Sports and Recreations 8 6%
Engineering 4 3%
Unspecified 4 3%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 67 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 821. 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 01 October 2026.
All research outputs
#28,538
of 34,547,233 outputs
Outputs from Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry
#17
of 8,865 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#786
of 466,488 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry
#1
of 71 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,547,233 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 8,865 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 71 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 98% of its contemporaries.