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Larvivorous fish for preventing malaria transmission

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 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 (92nd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (55th percentile)

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1 policy source
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Title
Larvivorous fish for preventing malaria transmission
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008090.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Deirdre P Walshe, Paul Garner, Ahmed A Abdel-Hameed Adeel, Graham H Pyke, Tom Burkot

Abstract

Adult anopheline mosquitoes transmit Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria. Some fish species eat mosquito larvae and pupae. In disease control policy documents, the World Health Organization includes biological control of malaria vectors by stocking ponds, rivers, and water collections near where people live with larvivorous fish to reduce Plasmodium parasite transmission. The Global Fund finances larvivorous fish programmes in some countries, and, with increasing efforts in eradication of malaria, policy makers may return to this option. We therefore assessed the evidence base for larvivorous fish programmes in malaria control.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Mexico 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 87 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Researcher 12 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 25 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 21%
Environmental Science 8 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 26 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 01 January 2017.
All research outputs
#2,319,762
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,764
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,605
of 320,546 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#96
of 216 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 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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