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Age at menarche and adult body mass index: a Mendelian randomization study

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Obesity, February 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 5,304)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Age at menarche and adult body mass index: a Mendelian randomization study
Published in
International Journal of Obesity, February 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41366-018-0048-7
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 107 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 11%
Researcher 7 7%
Student > Master 6 6%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 51 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 55 51%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 766. 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 19 January 2026.
All research outputs
#30,016
of 30,062,428 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Obesity
#17
of 5,304 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#549
of 345,393 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Obesity
#2
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 30,062,428 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,304 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 26.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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