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Profile of the complementary and alternative medicine workforce across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States and United Kingdom

Overview of attention for article published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine, May 2013
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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 (84th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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9 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
Profile of the complementary and alternative medicine workforce across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States and United Kingdom
Published in
Complementary Therapies in Medicine, May 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.ctim.2013.04.004
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Abstract

Despite the expressed demand for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services in developed countries, little is known about the CAM workforce in terms of supply and composition.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Italy 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 101 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 19 18%
Student > Master 15 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 9%
Other 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Other 25 24%
Unknown 20 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 34%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 6%
Psychology 5 5%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 23 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 May 2025.
All research outputs
#4,279,127
of 28,910,778 outputs
Outputs from Complementary Therapies in Medicine
#561
of 1,682 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,099
of 216,436 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Complementary Therapies in Medicine
#4
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,910,778 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,682 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% 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 216,436 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 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.