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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 242)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
182 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
189 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
26 Google+ users
reddit
59 Redditors
video
28 YouTube creators
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
6 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
219 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Zinc lozenges and the common cold: a meta-analysis comparing zinc acetate and zinc gluconate, and the role of zinc dosage
Published in
JRSM Open, May 2017
DOI 10.1177/2054270417694291
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Finland 1 <1%
Unknown 218 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 31 14%
Student > Master 26 12%
Other 23 11%
Researcher 18 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 6%
Other 29 13%
Unknown 78 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 7%
Sports and Recreations 16 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 7%
Other 30 14%
Unknown 87 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1676. 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 08 October 2026.
All research outputs
#7,689
of 34,553,382 outputs
Outputs from JRSM Open
#1
of 242 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88
of 356,801 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JRSM Open
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,553,382 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 242 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 31.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 356,801 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 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them