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Sibling Comparisons to Account for Confounding in Observational Studies

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, February 2026
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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29 X users
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1 Facebook page
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6 Bluesky users

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17 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sibling Comparisons to Account for Confounding in Observational Studies
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, February 2026
DOI 10.1001/jama.2025.22234
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 3 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 18%
Researcher 2 12%
Lecturer 1 6%
Professor 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 6 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 41%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 12%
Mathematics 1 6%
Psychology 1 6%
Unknown 6 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 25 March 2026.
All research outputs
#1,344,376
of 34,413,214 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#10,539
of 42,311 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,690
of 357,636 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#135
of 410 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,413,214 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 42,311 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 73.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% 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 357,636 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 410 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.