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COVID-19 Misinformation: A Potent Co-Factor in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in Cureus Journal of Medical Science, October 2022
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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2 news outlets
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15 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
COVID-19 Misinformation: A Potent Co-Factor in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in
Cureus Journal of Medical Science, October 2022
DOI 10.7759/cureus.30026
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Student > Master 1 7%
Unknown 13 87%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 1 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 7%
Unknown 13 87%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 December 2022.
All research outputs
#2,077,431
of 34,140,750 outputs
Outputs from Cureus Journal of Medical Science
#2,073
of 38,083 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,103
of 465,368 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cureus Journal of Medical Science
#145
of 2,006 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,140,750 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 38,083 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 465,368 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2,006 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 92% of its contemporaries.