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The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, September 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 4,526)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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6 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?
Published in
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, September 2016
DOI 10.1177/003591576505800503
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 7 <1%
Unknown 1091 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 155 14%
Researcher 145 13%
Student > Master 130 12%
Student > Bachelor 91 8%
Other 61 5%
Other 195 17%
Unknown 339 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 280 25%
Social Sciences 66 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 52 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 49 4%
Psychology 41 4%
Other 212 19%
Unknown 416 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 609. 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 04 November 2026.
All research outputs
#47,523
of 34,793,931 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
#31
of 4,526 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#784
of 339,084 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
#3
of 1,003 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,793,931 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 4,526 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 339,084 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,003 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 99% of its contemporaries.