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What is ‘moral distress’? A narrative synthesis of the literature

Overview of attention for article published in Nursing Ethics, October 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 829)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
31 X users
googleplus
1 Google+ user

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537 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What is ‘moral distress’? A narrative synthesis of the literature
Published in
Nursing Ethics, October 2017
DOI 10.1177/0969733017724354
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 537 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 65 12%
Student > Bachelor 37 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 6%
Researcher 23 4%
Lecturer 20 4%
Other 93 17%
Unknown 268 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 87 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 42 8%
Social Sciences 37 7%
Psychology 32 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 2%
Other 47 9%
Unknown 283 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 126. 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 20 August 2026.
All research outputs
#413,610
of 34,185,248 outputs
Outputs from Nursing Ethics
#6
of 829 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,731
of 364,735 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nursing Ethics
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,185,248 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 829 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 364,735 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 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 92% of its contemporaries.