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Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, January 1996
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't
Published in
British Medical Journal, January 1996
DOI 10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71
Pubmed ID
Authors

David L Sackett, William M C Rosenberg, J A Muir Gray, R Brian Haynes, W Scott Richardson

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 30 <1%
United States 20 <1%
Germany 8 <1%
Canada 8 <1%
Netherlands 7 <1%
Spain 7 <1%
Austria 5 <1%
Australia 4 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Other 37 <1%
Unknown 4052 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 849 20%
Student > Bachelor 561 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 391 9%
Researcher 368 9%
Student > Postgraduate 301 7%
Other 928 22%
Unknown 783 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 1348 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 634 15%
Social Sciences 268 6%
Psychology 154 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 139 3%
Other 691 17%
Unknown 947 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 890. 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 16 April 2024.
All research outputs
#20,066
of 25,768,270 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#468
of 65,038 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2
of 81,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#1
of 135 outputs
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