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Antibiotics versus placebo for acute bacterial conjunctivitis

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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6 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
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10 X users
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3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
Antibiotics versus placebo for acute bacterial conjunctivitis
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001211.pub3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Aziz Sheikh, Brian Hurwitz, Constant Paul van Schayck, Susannah McLean, Ulugbek Nurmatov

Abstract

Acute bacterial conjunctivitis is an infection of the conjunctiva. Both the palpebral and the bulbar ocular conjunctival surfaces are usually affected and typically become red and inflamed. Antibiotic therapy is widely used for the treatment of acute bacterial conjunctivitis. This Cochrane Review was first published in The Cochrane Library in 1999; updated in 2006 and again in 2012.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 289 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 68 23%
Student > Bachelor 39 13%
Student > Master 33 11%
Researcher 25 9%
Student > Postgraduate 19 7%
Other 40 14%
Unknown 67 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 138 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 11 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 3%
Other 34 12%
Unknown 72 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. 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 08 September 2023.
All research outputs
#551,637
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#976
of 11,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,791
of 187,469 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#25
of 230 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 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 11,842 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 230 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.