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Urgency and uncertainty: covid-19, face masks, and evidence informed policy

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, May 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
12 X users

Citations

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Title
Urgency and uncertainty: covid-19, face masks, and evidence informed policy
Published in
British Medical Journal, May 2020
DOI 10.1136/bmj.m2017
Pubmed ID
Authors

Graham P Martin, Esmée Hanna, Robert Dingwall

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 16%
Student > Master 9 11%
Other 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 18 22%
Unknown 22 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Engineering 5 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 27 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 20 June 2021.
All research outputs
#1,704,555
of 25,387,668 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#16,273
of 64,474 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,823
of 429,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#453
of 890 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,387,668 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 64,474 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 429,499 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 890 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 49th percentile – i.e., 49% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.