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Attributions of Cancer ‘Alarm’ Symptoms in a Community Sample

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, December 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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10 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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32 X users
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1 Google+ user

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Article details
Title
Attributions of Cancer ‘Alarm’ Symptoms in a Community Sample
Published in
PLOS ONE, December 2014
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0114028
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Abstract

Attribution of early cancer symptoms to a non-serious cause may lead to longer diagnostic intervals. We investigated attributions of potential cancer 'alarm' and non-alarm symptoms experienced in everyday life in a community sample of adults, without mention of a cancer context.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Bachelor 8 13%
Student > Master 8 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Librarian 3 5%
Other 12 20%
Unknown 14 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 26%
Psychology 8 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 19 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 106. 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 18 November 2024.
All research outputs
#505,502
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#6,492
of 224,527 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,868
of 422,207 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#106
of 4,267 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 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 224,527 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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