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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Article details
Title
‘Our problem here is the pig Ebola’: local accounts of epizootics preceding Ebola outbreaks in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Published in
Medical Humanities, April 2026
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2025-013586
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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
#4,622,893
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from Medical Humanities
#378
of 976 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,016
of 362,674 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Medical Humanities
#3
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 976 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 362,674 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.