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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 (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
72 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
National Trends in the Prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Prescribing of Methylphenidate among School-Age Children: 1990-1995
Published in
Clinical Pediatrics, May 1999
DOI 10.1177/000992289903800402
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 68 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Researcher 9 13%
Professor 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 14 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Social Sciences 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 17 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 May 2025.
All research outputs
#4,265,778
of 32,803,945 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Pediatrics
#280
of 2,346 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,103
of 51,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Pediatrics
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,803,945 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,346 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 51,506 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them