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Male circumcision for HIV prevention - a cross-sectional study on awareness among young people and adults in rural Uganda

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2010
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Title
Male circumcision for HIV prevention - a cross-sectional study on awareness among young people and adults in rural Uganda
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-10-209
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Authors

Andrea Wilcken, Flavia Miiro-Nakayima, Ramadhan NB Hizaamu, Thomas Keil, Dorothy Balaba-Byansi

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Nepal 1 <1%
Unknown 108 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 16%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Other 22 20%
Unknown 21 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 33%
Social Sciences 14 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Psychology 9 8%
Computer Science 4 4%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 25 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 17 August 2020.
All research outputs
#6,772,512
of 23,849,058 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,080
of 15,435 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,264
of 98,046 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#38
of 79 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,849,058 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,435 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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