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Collapsed scrums and collision tackles: what is the injury risk?

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, February 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Collapsed scrums and collision tackles: what is the injury risk?
Published in
British Journal of Sports Medicine, February 2014
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2013-092988
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Abstract

To establish the propensity for specific contact events to cause injury in rugby union.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 118 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 13%
Student > Bachelor 14 12%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Postgraduate 8 7%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 38 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 36 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 15%
Computer Science 7 6%
Engineering 6 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 41 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 31 March 2025.
All research outputs
#1,884,621
of 31,928,684 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#2,534
of 7,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,089
of 361,878 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#34
of 219 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,928,684 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,097 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 70.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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