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A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame

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6 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
policy
1 policy source
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3989 X users
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15 Facebook pages
reddit
12 Redditors

Citations

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14 Dimensions

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67 Mendeley
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Title
A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame
Published by
Nature, May 2023
DOI 10.1038/d41586-023-01708-4
Pubmed ID
Authors

Shannon Hall

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 18%
Researcher 10 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Professor 5 7%
Lecturer 5 7%
Other 16 24%
Unknown 13 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 12%
Chemistry 8 12%
Materials Science 6 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 6%
Psychology 4 6%
Other 19 28%
Unknown 18 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2467. 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 12 April 2024.
All research outputs
#3,184
of 25,722,279 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#329
of 98,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#82
of 391,857 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#11
of 1,096 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,722,279 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 98,578 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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