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Accumulating Evidence for Statins in Primary Prevention

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, December 2013
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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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
41 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Accumulating Evidence for Statins in Primary Prevention
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, December 2013
DOI 10.1001/jama.2013.281355
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 6%
Netherlands 2 4%
Spain 2 4%
Austria 1 2%
Unknown 46 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 22%
Other 9 17%
Professor 9 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 9%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 5 9%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 69%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Neuroscience 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 8 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 September 2025.
All research outputs
#1,035,843
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#8,922
of 42,268 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,165
of 376,531 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#98
of 330 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 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 42,268 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 73.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% 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 376,531 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 330 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 70% of its contemporaries.