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The Detection of Monkeypox in Humans in the Western Hemisphere

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, January 2004
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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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270 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 270 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 10%
Researcher 27 10%
Student > Master 25 9%
Student > Bachelor 17 6%
Student > Postgraduate 10 4%
Other 33 12%
Unknown 131 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 12 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 3%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 139 51%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 521. 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 19 April 2026.
All research outputs
#61,929
of 34,765,775 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#1,915
of 38,732 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46
of 206,305 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#3
of 175 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,765,775 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 38,732 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 120.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 206,305 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 175 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.