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Homeopathic Oscillococcinum® for preventing and treating influenza and influenza‐like illness

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2015
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Title
Homeopathic Oscillococcinum<sup>®</sup> for preventing and treating influenza and influenza‐like illness
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001957.pub6
Pubmed ID
Authors

Robert T Mathie, Joyce Frye, Peter Fisher

Abstract

Influenza is a highly infectious viral disease that is particularly common in the winter months. Oscillococcinum(®) is a patented homeopathic medicine that is made from a 1% solution of wild duck heart and liver extract, which is then serially diluted 200 times with water and alcohol.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 288 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 18%
Student > Bachelor 32 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 10%
Researcher 26 9%
Student > Postgraduate 17 6%
Other 40 14%
Unknown 96 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 87 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 11%
Psychology 15 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Other 33 11%
Unknown 100 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 268. 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 12 February 2024.
All research outputs
#135,333
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#244
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,484
of 361,515 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6
of 263 outputs
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