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The normal range: it is not normal and it is not a range

Overview of attention for article published in Postgraduate Medical Journal, November 2018
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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1 blog
twitter
16 X users
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1 patent
reddit
4 Redditors
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1 Bluesky user

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103 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The normal range: it is not normal and it is not a range
Published in
Postgraduate Medical Journal, November 2018
DOI 10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135983
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 103 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 15%
Researcher 12 12%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 6 6%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 39 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 7%
Neuroscience 4 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 42 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 28 December 2025.
All research outputs
#2,089,913
of 32,749,057 outputs
Outputs from Postgraduate Medical Journal
#303
of 3,821 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,434
of 375,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Postgraduate Medical Journal
#6
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,749,057 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,821 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 375,467 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 38 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.