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Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
44 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
2155 X users
facebook
8 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
6 Redditors

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mendeley
24 Mendeley
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Title
Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Published by
Nature, March 2024
DOI 10.1038/d41586-024-00720-6
Pubmed ID
Authors

Heidi Ledford

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 33%
Unspecified 4 17%
Other 3 13%
Professor 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 5 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 13%
Computer Science 2 8%
Unspecified 2 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 8%
Other 5 21%
Unknown 6 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1496. 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 21 April 2024.
All research outputs
#8,077
of 25,809,907 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#852
of 98,831 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#147
of 320,590 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#17
of 1,119 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,809,907 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 98,831 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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We're also able to compare this research output to 1,119 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 98% of its contemporaries.