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Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans?

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution & Human Behavior, September 2014
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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 (73rd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
66 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors

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83 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans?
Published in
Evolution & Human Behavior, September 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.005
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Singapore 1 1%
Finland 1 1%
Czechia 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 76 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 18%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Other 5 6%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 24 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 17%
Social Sciences 12 14%
Psychology 6 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Environmental Science 4 5%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 24 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 71. 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 11 March 2026.
All research outputs
#772,256
of 34,601,261 outputs
Outputs from Evolution & Human Behavior
#219
of 1,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,196
of 281,312 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolution & Human Behavior
#4
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,261 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,524 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 46.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 281,312 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 15 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 73% of its contemporaries.