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Exploring unnecessary invasive procedures in the United States: a retrospective mixed-methods analysis of cases from 2008-2016

Overview of attention for article published in Patient Safety in Surgery, December 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 314)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)

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1 news outlet
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5 X users
reddit
6 Redditors
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1 Bluesky user

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32 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Exploring unnecessary invasive procedures in the United States: a retrospective mixed-methods analysis of cases from 2008-2016
Published in
Patient Safety in Surgery, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13037-017-0144-y
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 16%
Student > Master 5 16%
Lecturer 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Researcher 2 6%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 14 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Psychology 2 6%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 17 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 07 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,876,964
of 34,540,392 outputs
Outputs from Patient Safety in Surgery
#37
of 314 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,273
of 493,302 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Patient Safety in Surgery
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,540,392 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 314 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. 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 493,302 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 90% of its contemporaries.
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