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A qualitative investigation of individuals’ experiences and expectations before and after completing a trial of commercial weight loss programmes

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics, December 2007
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
A qualitative investigation of individuals’ experiences and expectations before and after completing a trial of commercial weight loss programmes
Published in
Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics, December 2007
DOI 10.1111/j.1365-277x.2007.00837.x
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Abstract

To investigate the previous dieting experiences and expectations of individuals enrolled in a randomized trial of four commercial weight loss programmes and post-intervention to compare experiences across the diet groups.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 86 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 18%
Researcher 16 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Other 6 7%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 22 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Psychology 12 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 29 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 July 2018.
All research outputs
#3,293,814
of 34,457,357 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics
#355
of 2,009 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,840
of 226,343 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,457,357 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,009 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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