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| Title |
The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, April 2002
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1071059 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Polly Matzinger |
| Abstract |
For over 50 years immunologists have based their thoughts, experiments, and clinical treatments on the idea that the immune system functions by making a distinction between self and nonself. Although this paradigm has often served us well, years of detailed examination have revealed a number of inherent problems. This Viewpoint outlines a model of immunity based on the idea that the immune system is more concerned with entities that do damage than with those that are foreign. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 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 | 4 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 21% |
| Mexico | 2 | 11% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 21% |
| Scientists | 3 | 16% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,882 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 24 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 21 | 1% |
| Germany | 10 | <1% |
| Canada | 5 | <1% |
| Japan | 4 | <1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Mexico | 3 | <1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 30 | 2% |
| Unknown | 1775 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 411 | 22% |
| Researcher | 335 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 218 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 206 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 111 | 6% |
| Other | 356 | 19% |
| Unknown | 245 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 551 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 364 | 19% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 191 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 190 | 10% |
| Computer Science | 60 | 3% |
| Other | 227 | 12% |
| Unknown | 299 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. 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 January 2024.
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#696,375
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Outputs from Science
#14,973
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#514
of 130,447 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#15
of 329 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 83,358 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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