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Prospective Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

Overview of attention for article published in Gastroenterology, December 2008
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Prospective Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
Published in
Gastroenterology, December 2008
DOI 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.12.038
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 140 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 30 21%
Other 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Student > Master 12 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 6%
Other 29 20%
Unknown 32 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 62 42%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 36 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 19 August 2025.
All research outputs
#1,707,788
of 33,695,692 outputs
Outputs from Gastroenterology
#1,895
of 16,308 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,295
of 239,326 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Gastroenterology
#9
of 78 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,695,692 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,308 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 239,326 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 78 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.