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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 28,100)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
3384 X users
facebook
17 Facebook pages
reddit
178 Redditors
video
5 YouTube creators
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
90 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost Nine of Ten COVID-19 Deaths: Time to Act. Comment on: “Vitamin D Deficiency and Outcome of COVID-19 Patients”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2757
Published in
Nutrients, November 2020
DOI 10.3390/nu12123642
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 11%
Other 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 4%
Student > Master 4 4%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 47 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 49 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2737. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#2,934
of 34,517,649 outputs
Outputs from Nutrients
#5
of 28,100 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#141
of 570,850 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nutrients
#1
of 797 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,517,649 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 28,100 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 570,850 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 797 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.