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Watching television is associated with childhood obesity: but is it clinically important?

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Obesity, September 2005
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  • In the top 25% 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 (90th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Watching television is associated with childhood obesity: but is it clinically important?
Published in
International Journal of Obesity, September 2005
DOI 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803071
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Abstract

To assess the impact of television viewing during childhood and adolescence on body mass index (BMI) in children up to the age of 15 years.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
Brazil 3 2%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Morocco 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 170 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 13%
Researcher 22 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 10%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Other 34 19%
Unknown 36 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 19%
Social Sciences 23 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 10%
Psychology 16 9%
Sports and Recreations 14 8%
Other 32 18%
Unknown 43 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. 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 05 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,499,787
of 29,516,076 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Obesity
#746
of 5,221 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,271
of 84,110 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Obesity
#3
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,516,076 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,221 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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