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Sunscreen use and the risk for melanoma: a quantitative review.

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Internal Medicine, December 2003
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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 (96th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Sunscreen use and the risk for melanoma: a quantitative review.
Published in
Annals of Internal Medicine, December 2003
DOI 10.7326/0003-4819-139-12-200312160-00006
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 4%
Unknown 95 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 15%
Student > Bachelor 12 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 10%
Other 9 9%
Researcher 9 9%
Other 21 21%
Unknown 23 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 21 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 165. 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 16 June 2026.
All research outputs
#311,479
of 34,526,284 outputs
Outputs from Annals of Internal Medicine
#1,217
of 16,974 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#391
of 198,659 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of Internal Medicine
#2
of 50 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 16,974 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 59.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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