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Dietary guidelines on trial: the charges are not evidence based

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, August 2016
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
25 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
5 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Readers on

mendeley
72 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Dietary guidelines on trial: the charges are not evidence based
Published in
The Lancet, August 2016
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31278-8
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 70 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 19%
Student > Bachelor 10 14%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Other 4 6%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 12 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 7%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 14 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 01 January 2018.
All research outputs
#1,104,686
of 34,189,040 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#8,186
of 51,775 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,891
of 341,271 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#139
of 458 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,189,040 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 51,775 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 341,271 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 458 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 69% of its contemporaries.