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Current policies on early detection of prostate cancer create overdiagnosis and inequity with minimal benefit

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, May 2023
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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 (95th percentile)

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news
24 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
88 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
45 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Current policies on early detection of prostate cancer create overdiagnosis and inequity with minimal benefit
Published in
British Medical Journal, May 2023
DOI 10.1136/bmj-2022-071082
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 16%
Other 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Student > Bachelor 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 22 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 26 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 255. 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 13 August 2026.
All research outputs
#182,675
of 34,412,533 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#2,192
of 75,580 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,846
of 422,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#35
of 793 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,412,533 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 75,580 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.5. 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 793 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 95% of its contemporaries.