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Using pedometers to increase physical activity in overweight and obese women: a pilot study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2009
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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 (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Using pedometers to increase physical activity in overweight and obese women: a pilot study
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-9-309
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Spain 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 146 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 17%
Researcher 21 14%
Student > Postgraduate 14 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 31 20%
Unknown 37 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 20%
Sports and Recreations 19 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 9%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Psychology 10 7%
Other 23 15%
Unknown 44 29%
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 24 September 2018.
All research outputs
#3,168,573
of 27,778,980 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#602
of 2,491 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,784
of 114,352 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#5
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,778,980 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 2,491 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.