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Hidden Biomass of Intact Malaria Parasites in the Human Spleen

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, May 2021
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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 (98th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
60 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Readers on

mendeley
128 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 128 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 13%
Student > Master 17 13%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Other 5 4%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 57 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 19%
Immunology and Microbiology 14 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 63 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 173. 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 16 May 2025.
All research outputs
#282,740
of 32,647,928 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#4,943
of 37,488 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,464
of 479,735 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#95
of 261 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,647,928 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 37,488 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 119.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 479,735 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 261 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its contemporaries.