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A Meta-Analysis of Injuries in Senior Men’s Professional Rugby Union

Overview of attention for article published in Sports Medicine, July 2013
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Title
A Meta-Analysis of Injuries in Senior Men’s Professional Rugby Union
Published in
Sports Medicine, July 2013
DOI 10.1007/s40279-013-0078-1
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Authors

Sean Williams, Grant Trewartha, Simon Kemp, Keith Stokes

Abstract

Rugby Union has one of the highest reported incidences of match injuries amongst all professional team sports. The majority of research within this field has focused on elite male cohorts; in this study we present the first meta-analytic review of these data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Unknown 516 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 119 23%
Student > Master 83 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 66 13%
Researcher 28 5%
Student > Postgraduate 28 5%
Other 78 15%
Unknown 120 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 193 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 79 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 46 9%
Social Sciences 14 3%
Engineering 11 2%
Other 42 8%
Unknown 137 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 14 November 2023.
All research outputs
#654,557
of 24,810,360 outputs
Outputs from Sports Medicine
#620
of 2,870 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,875
of 199,448 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sports Medicine
#11
of 28 outputs
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