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Is there any scientific evidence for the use of glucosamine in the management of human osteoarthritis?

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, January 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#34 of 4,338)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
14 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
5 Redditors
video
5 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
280 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Is there any scientific evidence for the use of glucosamine in the management of human osteoarthritis?
Published in
Arthritis Research & Therapy, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/ar3657
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 274 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 44 16%
Researcher 33 12%
Student > Master 32 11%
Student > Postgraduate 19 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 6%
Other 48 17%
Unknown 86 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 80 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 15 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 4%
Other 41 15%
Unknown 91 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 99. 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 26 September 2025.
All research outputs
#541,744
of 34,339,954 outputs
Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#34
of 4,338 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,679
of 305,627 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#2
of 79 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,339,954 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 4,338 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 79 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.