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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: Exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Research, November 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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
25 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
72 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
11 Redditors

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104 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: Exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand
Published in
Environmental Research, November 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112322
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 104 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Other 4 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 56 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 13 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 8%
Engineering 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 58 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 252. 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 20 July 2026.
All research outputs
#182,018
of 34,156,109 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Research
#114
of 10,318 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,193
of 474,229 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Research
#4
of 207 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,156,109 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 10,318 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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