You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Addressing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in cancer: a prescription for change
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Lancet Oncology, May 2014
|
| DOI | 10.1016/s1470-2045(13)70598-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Laura J Esserman, Ian M Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F Ransohoff, H Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A Berry, Kenneth W Kinzler, William C Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 70 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 9% |
| India | 2 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| France | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Turkey | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 31 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 45 | 64% |
| Scientists | 13 | 19% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 355 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 343 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 46 | 13% |
| Other | 43 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 42 | 12% |
| Researcher | 39 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 38 | 11% |
| Other | 81 | 23% |
| Unknown | 66 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 146 | 41% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 26 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 3% |
| Engineering | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 46 | 13% |
| Unknown | 86 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 206. 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 15 February 2024.
All research outputs
#194,012
of 25,754,670 outputs
Outputs from Lancet Oncology
#218
of 6,939 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,513
of 243,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Lancet Oncology
#1
of 125 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,754,670 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 6,939 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 243,033 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 125 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 99% of its contemporaries.