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Antibiotics for preventing meningococcal infections

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2013
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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3 news outlets
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7 X users
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10 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Antibiotics for preventing meningococcal infections
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004785.pub5
Pubmed ID
Authors

Anca Zalmanovici Trestioreanu, Abigail Fraser, Anat Gafter‐Gvili, Mical Paul, Leonard Leibovici

Abstract

Meningococcal disease is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis). Household contacts have the highest risk of contracting the disease during the first week of a case being detected. Prophylaxis is considered for close contacts of people with a meningococcal infection and populations with known high carriage rates.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Unknown 163 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 26 16%
Researcher 20 12%
Student > Master 15 9%
Other 14 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 5%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 59 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 62 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 3%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 60 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 10 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,422,116
of 25,468,708 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,055
of 13,112 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,963
of 224,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#60
of 227 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,468,708 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,112 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 227 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.