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Patient-targeted Googling and social media: a cross-sectional study of senior medical students

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Ethics, December 2017
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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 (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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2 news outlets
twitter
7 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Patient-targeted Googling and social media: a cross-sectional study of senior medical students
Published in
BMC Medical Ethics, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12910-017-0230-9
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 97 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 10%
Researcher 9 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Lecturer 4 4%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 40 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 8%
Social Sciences 8 8%
Psychology 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 43 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 August 2022.
All research outputs
#2,341,626
of 32,185,128 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#186
of 1,276 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,045
of 476,914 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#5
of 24 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,185,128 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,276 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 476,914 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 24 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.