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| Title |
Ebola and Quarantine
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|---|---|
| Published in |
New England Journal of Medicine, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1056/nejme1413139 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jeffrey M Drazen, Rupa Kanapathipillai, Edward W Campion, Eric J Rubin, Scott M Hammer, Stephen Morrissey, Lindsey R Baden |
| Abstract |
The governors of a number of states, including New York and New Jersey, recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning to the United States from regions of the world where they may have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease. We understand their motivation for this policy - to protect the citizens of their states from contracting this often-fatal illness. This approach, however, is not scientifically based, is unfair and unwise, and will impede essential efforts to stop these awful outbreaks of Ebola disease at their source, which is the only satisfactory goal. The governors' action is like . . . |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 142 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 | 39 | 27% |
| Spain | 11 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 4% |
| Mexico | 4 | 3% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Italy | 3 | 2% |
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Peru | 2 | 1% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 55 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 99 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 23 | 16% |
| Scientists | 15 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 194 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 185 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 36 | 19% |
| Researcher | 31 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 44 | 23% |
| Unknown | 20 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 67 | 35% |
| Social Sciences | 22 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 41 | 21% |
| Unknown | 29 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 654. 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 28 August 2022.
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#33,829
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Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#1,266
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#235
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Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#7
of 310 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,827,956 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 32,698 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 122.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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