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Early sport specialisation, does it lead to long-term problems?

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, December 2012
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
29 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
guideline
1 clinical guideline source
podcasts
2 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
226 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Early sport specialisation, does it lead to long-term problems?
Published in
British Journal of Sports Medicine, December 2012
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092005
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Qatar 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 219 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 17%
Student > Bachelor 29 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 11%
Lecturer 12 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 5%
Other 48 21%
Unknown 62 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 105 46%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 9%
Psychology 8 4%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 2%
Other 9 4%
Unknown 72 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 03 April 2026.
All research outputs
#1,213,208
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#1,902
of 7,364 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,298
of 345,666 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#16
of 81 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 7,364 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 69.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 345,666 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 81 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.