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A Pilot Study of Medical Misinformation Perceptions and Training Among Practitioners in North Carolina (USA)

Overview of attention for article published in Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, August 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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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31 X users

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Article details
Title
A Pilot Study of Medical Misinformation Perceptions and Training Among Practitioners in North Carolina (USA)
Published in
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, August 2021
DOI 10.1177/00469580211035742
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 44 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Student > Master 2 5%
Librarian 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 27 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 14%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 26 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,310,890
of 34,412,533 outputs
Outputs from Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
#66
of 913 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,884
of 446,815 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,412,533 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 913 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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