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Spine Immobilization in Penetrating Trauma: More Harm Than Good?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Trauma, January 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 3,712)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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blogs
3 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
46 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
15 Redditors
guideline
2 clinical guideline sources
podcasts
2 podcasts

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221 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Spine Immobilization in Penetrating Trauma: More Harm Than Good?
Published in
Journal of Trauma, January 2010
DOI 10.1097/ta.0b013e3181c9ee58
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 213 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 38 17%
Researcher 25 11%
Other 24 11%
Student > Master 18 8%
Student > Postgraduate 15 7%
Other 50 23%
Unknown 51 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 124 56%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 10%
Engineering 4 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 1%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 56 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. 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 30 July 2025.
All research outputs
#729,856
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Trauma
#28
of 3,712 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,423
of 234,179 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Trauma
#1
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,712 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. 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 58 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 98% of its contemporaries.