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The importance of selenium to human health

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, July 2000
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
14 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
23 X users
patent
17 patents
facebook
7 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
2 Redditors
video
5 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
1562 Mendeley
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
The importance of selenium to human health
Published in
The Lancet, July 2000
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)02490-9
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,562 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Ireland 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Other 13 <1%
Unknown 1519 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 236 15%
Student > Master 204 13%
Student > Bachelor 177 11%
Researcher 147 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 82 5%
Other 246 16%
Unknown 470 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 305 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 210 13%
Chemistry 125 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 91 6%
Environmental Science 68 4%
Other 225 14%
Unknown 538 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 176. 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 05 April 2026.
All research outputs
#283,423
of 33,779,198 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#2,972
of 51,415 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#144
of 56,089 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#2
of 232 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,779,198 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 51,415 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 56,089 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 232 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.