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The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS Medicine, February 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#16 of 5,240)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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73 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
1663 X users
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2 patents
facebook
8 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
14 Google+ users

Citations

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817 Dimensions

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1382 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
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Title
The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers
Published in
PLOS Medicine, February 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001953
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lukasz Piwek, David A. Ellis, Sally Andrews, Adam Joinson

Abstract

Lukasz Piwek and colleagues consider whether wearable technology can become a valuable asset for health care.

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Qatar 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 1370 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 230 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 214 15%
Student > Bachelor 163 12%
Researcher 155 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 73 5%
Other 218 16%
Unknown 329 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 164 12%
Engineering 156 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 134 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 86 6%
Psychology 63 5%
Other 371 27%
Unknown 408 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1934. 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 29 April 2024.
All research outputs
#5,001
of 25,832,559 outputs
Outputs from PLOS Medicine
#16
of 5,240 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49
of 408,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS Medicine
#1
of 56 outputs
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