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Metformin and Infections: What Is the Next Step in This Decades-Long Story?

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, December 2022
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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44 X users

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Article details
Title
Metformin and Infections: What Is the Next Step in This Decades-Long Story?
Published in
Clinical Infectious Diseases, December 2022
DOI 10.1093/cid/ciac903
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Unspecified 1 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Student > Master 1 5%
Researcher 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 14 67%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Unspecified 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 15 71%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 07 March 2023.
All research outputs
#1,028,103
of 34,639,378 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#1,791
of 21,636 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,107
of 535,364 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#25
of 145 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,639,378 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 21,636 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 535,364 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 145 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.