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Sleep function: Toward elucidating an enigma

Overview of attention for article published in Sleep Medicine Reviews, August 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 (82nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
13 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
17 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
8 Wikipedia pages
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
922 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sleep function: Toward elucidating an enigma
Published in
Sleep Medicine Reviews, August 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.smrv.2015.08.005
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 922 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 910 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 121 13%
Student > Master 115 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 105 11%
Researcher 71 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 42 5%
Other 127 14%
Unknown 341 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 132 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 98 11%
Psychology 82 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 67 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 5%
Other 128 14%
Unknown 373 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 154. 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 26 August 2026.
All research outputs
#332,975
of 34,226,562 outputs
Outputs from Sleep Medicine Reviews
#110
of 1,338 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,288
of 305,258 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sleep Medicine Reviews
#3
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,226,562 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 1,338 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 54.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 305,258 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 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.