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Title |
The “number needed to treat” turns 20 — and continues to be used and misused
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Published in |
Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2008
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DOI | 10.1503/cmaj.080484 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Finlay A McAlister |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1 | 20% |
France | 1 | 20% |
Ireland | 1 | 20% |
Ecuador | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 129 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 1 | <1% |
Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
Austria | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
Belgium | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 120 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 25 | 19% |
Other | 15 | 12% |
Student > Master | 14 | 11% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 9% |
Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 9% |
Other | 30 | 23% |
Unknown | 22 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 73 | 57% |
Psychology | 9 | 7% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 3% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 2% |
Other | 11 | 9% |
Unknown | 25 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 20 May 2022.
All research outputs
#888,766
of 25,779,988 outputs
Outputs from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#1,327
of 9,556 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,840
of 99,054 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#4
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,779,988 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,556 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 58 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.