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Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic

Overview of attention for article published in Obesity, September 2012
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic
Published in
Obesity, September 2012
DOI 10.1038/oby.2008.351
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 24 2%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Chile 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Morocco 1 <1%
Iceland 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 977 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 162 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 128 13%
Student > Bachelor 124 12%
Researcher 99 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 80 8%
Other 188 18%
Unknown 243 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 245 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100 10%
Social Sciences 68 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 53 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 45 4%
Other 215 21%
Unknown 298 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 115. 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 17 April 2024.
All research outputs
#465,372
of 34,561,446 outputs
Outputs from Obesity
#369
of 5,012 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,088
of 224,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Obesity
#61
of 1,384 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,561,446 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,012 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 1,384 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.