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The FDA alert on suicidality and antiepileptic drugs: Fire or false alarm?

Overview of attention for article published in Epilepsia, May 2009
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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 (81st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor
guideline
1 clinical guideline source

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97 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The FDA alert on suicidality and antiepileptic drugs: Fire or false alarm?
Published in
Epilepsia, May 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02012.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 95 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 23%
Student > Master 11 11%
Other 7 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 6%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 25 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 34%
Psychology 11 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 7%
Neuroscience 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 28 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 14 April 2025.
All research outputs
#6,094,810
of 32,221,736 outputs
Outputs from Epilepsia
#2,037
of 7,268 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,884
of 137,915 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Epilepsia
#10
of 62 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,221,736 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,268 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 137,915 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 62 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.