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Physician associates and GPs in primary care: a comparison

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of General Practice, April 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
80 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
4 Redditors

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mendeley
183 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Physician associates and GPs in primary care: a comparison
Published in
British Journal of General Practice, April 2015
DOI 10.3399/bjgp15x684877
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Unknown 181 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 20%
Student > Bachelor 23 13%
Student > Postgraduate 18 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 9%
Other 12 7%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 46 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 70 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 4%
Psychology 6 3%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 48 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 134. 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 03 September 2026.
All research outputs
#394,521
of 34,761,120 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of General Practice
#124
of 5,832 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,555
of 309,353 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of General Practice
#3
of 60 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,761,120 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 5,832 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 309,353 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 60 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.