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Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of General Internal Medicine, December 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source

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mendeley
163 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine, December 2010
DOI 10.1007/s11606-010-1582-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

Brandon W. Alleman, Tana Luger, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Rene Martin, Michael D. Horowitz, Peter Cram

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
India 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 155 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 13%
Researcher 22 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Bachelor 13 8%
Other 32 20%
Unknown 42 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 20%
Social Sciences 22 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 4%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 52 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 01 November 2015.
All research outputs
#4,945,941
of 28,832,041 outputs
Outputs from Journal of General Internal Medicine
#3,052
of 9,006 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,649
of 209,491 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of General Internal Medicine
#20
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,832,041 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,006 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% 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 209,491 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.