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Drinking water contamination and the incidence of leukemia: an ecologic study.

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Public Health, October 1990
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

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26 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Drinking water contamination and the incidence of leukemia: an ecologic study.
Published in
American Journal of Public Health, October 1990
DOI 10.2105/ajph.80.10.1209
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Mexico 1 4%
Unknown 24 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Professor 2 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 8 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Chemistry 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 10 38%
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 26 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,688,083
of 34,518,147 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Public Health
#2,612
of 14,207 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#279
of 23,244 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Public Health
#3
of 56 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,518,147 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 14,207 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 56 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 94% of its contemporaries.