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Polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, December 1992
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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 (96th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
1 policy source
patent
2 patents
guideline
2 clinical guideline sources

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mendeley
22 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis
Published in
The Lancet, December 1992
DOI 10.1016/0140-6736(92)92622-m
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
Brazil 1 5%
Unknown 20 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 23%
Other 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 27%
Social Sciences 4 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 9%
Unknown 7 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 08 April 2025.
All research outputs
#3,213,648
of 28,197,891 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#17,155
of 46,798 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,131
of 70,535 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#20
of 119 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,197,891 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 46,798 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% 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 70,535 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 119 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.