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A Sudden and Concerning Increase in the Use of Electronic Brachytherapy for Skin Cancer

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA Dermatology, July 2015
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
twitter
22 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
guideline
2 clinical guideline sources

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12 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Sudden and Concerning Increase in the Use of Electronic Brachytherapy for Skin Cancer
Published in
JAMA Dermatology, July 2015
DOI 10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.0385
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 8%
Unknown 11 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 33%
Librarian 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Professor 1 8%
Other 2 17%
Unknown 2 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 67%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Physics and Astronomy 1 8%
Unknown 2 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. 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 21 April 2021.
All research outputs
#1,071,146
of 29,858,747 outputs
Outputs from JAMA Dermatology
#711
of 4,152 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,285
of 281,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA Dermatology
#11
of 98 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,858,747 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,152 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 37.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 281,960 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 98 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.