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| Title |
Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
British Medical Journal, February 2004
|
| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.328.7438.474 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jenny Doust, Chris Del Mar |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 386 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 Kingdom | 44 | 11% |
| Spain | 28 | 7% |
| India | 21 | 5% |
| Brazil | 20 | 5% |
| Australia | 14 | 4% |
| United States | 10 | 3% |
| Ecuador | 8 | 2% |
| Mexico | 8 | 2% |
| Canada | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 60 | 16% |
| Unknown | 166 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 266 | 69% |
| Scientists | 59 | 15% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 54 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 7 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 105 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 24% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 12% |
| Researcher | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 26 | 25% |
| Unknown | 9 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 58 | 55% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Psychology | 5 | 5% |
| Sports and Recreations | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Unknown | 15 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 264. 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 27 April 2024.
All research outputs
#140,799
of 25,856,713 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#2,066
of 65,159 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95
of 63,293 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#1
of 247 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,856,713 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 65,159 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 247 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.