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Why are African Americans under‐represented in medical research studies? Impediments to participation

Overview of attention for article published in Ethnicity & Health, April 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 743)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Why are African Americans under‐represented in medical research studies? Impediments to participation
Published in
Ethnicity & Health, April 2010
DOI 10.1080/13557858.1997.9961813
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Unknown 159 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 16%
Researcher 25 15%
Student > Master 19 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 9%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Other 26 16%
Unknown 42 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 23%
Psychology 17 10%
Social Sciences 15 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 51 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 27 October 2022.
All research outputs
#2,409,069
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from Ethnicity & Health
#41
of 743 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,539
of 150,601 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ethnicity & Health
#1
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 743 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.4. 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 150,601 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 29 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.