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Wearable devices in healthcare: Privacy and information security issues

Overview of attention for article published in Health Information Management Journal, May 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 197)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
28 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
344 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Wearable devices in healthcare: Privacy and information security issues
Published in
Health Information Management Journal, May 2019
DOI 10.1177/1833358319851684
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 344 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 8%
Student > Bachelor 21 6%
Researcher 16 5%
Lecturer 12 3%
Other 46 13%
Unknown 188 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 45 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 5%
Engineering 16 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 5%
Social Sciences 9 3%
Other 43 13%
Unknown 197 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 237. 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 17 August 2026.
All research outputs
#199,617
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Health Information Management Journal
#1
of 197 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,243
of 396,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Information Management Journal
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 197 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 396,052 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them