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Cannabis use and cancer of the head and neck: Case‐control study

Overview of attention for article published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, March 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 5,255)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
20 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
18 X users
facebook
156 Facebook pages
googleplus
10 Google+ users
reddit
39 Redditors

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mendeley
83 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Cannabis use and cancer of the head and neck: Case‐control study
Published in
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, March 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.12.002
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 78 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 22%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Other 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 25 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Chemistry 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 32 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 238. 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 06 November 2025.
All research outputs
#194,357
of 32,887,492 outputs
Outputs from Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
#27
of 5,255 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#324
of 128,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,887,492 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 5,255 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.