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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, February 1994
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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 (91st percentile)

Mentioned by

wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor
guideline
10 clinical guideline sources

Readers on

mendeley
240 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, February 1994
DOI 10.1001/jama.1994.03510290071040
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 3%
United Kingdom 4 2%
Spain 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 217 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 15%
Other 29 12%
Professor 24 10%
Student > Master 21 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 8%
Other 74 31%
Unknown 39 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 137 57%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 3%
Psychology 7 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 21 9%
Unknown 55 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 09 August 2025.
All research outputs
#1,515,481
of 34,545,128 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#11,405
of 42,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#856
of 104,264 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#16
of 183 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,545,128 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 42,550 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 72.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 183 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 91% of its contemporaries.