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Influenza in Africa: Uncovering the Epidemiology of a Long-Overlooked Disease

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, November 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Influenza in Africa: Uncovering the Epidemiology of a Long-Overlooked Disease
Published in
Journal of Infectious Diseases, November 2012
DOI 10.1093/infdis/jis548
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Vietnam 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Unknown 104 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 19%
Researcher 20 19%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 22 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 8%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 23 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 February 2025.
All research outputs
#5,035,448
of 34,400,738 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Infectious Diseases
#4,987
of 18,990 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,201
of 344,765 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Infectious Diseases
#45
of 145 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,400,738 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 18,990 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 145 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 67% of its contemporaries.