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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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
107 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
675 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis
Published in
PLOS Medicine, February 2019
DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002744
Pubmed ID
Authors

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 675 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 675 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 66 10%
Student > Bachelor 55 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 8%
Researcher 49 7%
Student > Postgraduate 30 4%
Other 115 17%
Unknown 308 46%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 113 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 77 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 3%
Social Sciences 15 2%
Other 81 12%
Unknown 336 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 85. 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 03 July 2025.
All research outputs
#625,114
of 34,189,040 outputs
Outputs from PLOS Medicine
#886
of 5,347 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,867
of 495,598 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS Medicine
#16
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,189,040 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 5,347 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 82.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% 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 495,598 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 58 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.