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A systematic review on the effects of Echinacea supplementation on cytokine levels: Is there a role in COVID-19?

Overview of attention for article published in Metabolism Open, July 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#24 of 225)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
15 X users
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
145 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A systematic review on the effects of Echinacea supplementation on cytokine levels: Is there a role in COVID-19?
Published in
Metabolism Open, July 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.metop.2021.100115
Pubmed ID
Authors

Monique Aucoin, Valentina Cardozo, Meagan D. McLaren, Anna Garber, Daniella Remy, Joy Baker, Adam Gratton, Mohammed Ali Kala, Sasha Monteiro, Cara Warder, Alessandra Perciballi, Kieran Cooley

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 145 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 19 13%
Researcher 7 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 4%
Other 5 3%
Unspecified 4 3%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 87 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 10 7%
Unspecified 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 86 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. 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 27 April 2026.
All research outputs
#849,945
of 33,214,765 outputs
Outputs from Metabolism Open
#24
of 225 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,693
of 463,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Metabolism Open
#4
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,214,765 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 225 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 463,582 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.