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Palliative Sedation Versus Euthanasia: An Ethical Assessment

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, June 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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
3 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor
guideline
1 clinical guideline source

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mendeley
251 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Palliative Sedation Versus Euthanasia: An Ethical Assessment
Published in
Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, June 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.03.008
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 247 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 48 19%
Student > Master 32 13%
Student > Postgraduate 26 10%
Other 20 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 7%
Other 45 18%
Unknown 63 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 86 34%
Nursing and Health Professions 46 18%
Social Sciences 12 5%
Psychology 8 3%
Philosophy 6 2%
Other 24 10%
Unknown 69 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 18 March 2026.
All research outputs
#1,827,577
of 34,410,798 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Pain & Symptom Management
#319
of 4,822 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,869
of 245,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Pain & Symptom Management
#8
of 43 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,798 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,822 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 245,033 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 43 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.