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Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in two long-term refugee camps in Kenya, 2007-2010

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2012
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Article details
Title
Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in two long-term refugee camps in Kenya, 2007-2010
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BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-12-7
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Abstract

Refugees are at risk for poor outcomes from acute respiratory infections (ARI) because of overcrowding, suboptimal living conditions, and malnutrition. We implemented surveillance for respiratory viruses in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya to characterize their role in the epidemiology of ARI among refugees.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Kenya 1 <1%
Unknown 162 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 20%
Researcher 27 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 10%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 4%
Other 23 14%
Unknown 42 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 7%
Social Sciences 11 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 4%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 49 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 November 2019.
All research outputs
#10,133,997
of 33,738,238 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,475
of 10,316 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#81,089
of 301,798 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#24
of 75 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,738,238 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 10,316 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 75 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 68% of its contemporaries.