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Vitamin D status in the tropics: Is sunlight exposure the main determinant?

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrition Bulletin, October 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 720)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
33 X users
reddit
5 Redditors

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mendeley
157 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Vitamin D status in the tropics: Is sunlight exposure the main determinant?
Published in
Nutrition Bulletin, October 2018
DOI 10.1111/nbu.12349
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 157 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 13%
Student > Bachelor 19 12%
Researcher 8 5%
Student > Postgraduate 8 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 76 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Unspecified 4 3%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 83 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 84. 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 17 January 2024.
All research outputs
#612,153
of 32,521,757 outputs
Outputs from Nutrition Bulletin
#43
of 720 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,644
of 377,310 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nutrition Bulletin
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,521,757 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 720 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 377,310 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 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.