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Selenium and human health

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, February 2012
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Selenium and human health
Published in
The Lancet, February 2012
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61452-9
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,030 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 6 <1%
Poland 3 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
New Zealand 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 1998 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 271 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 244 12%
Student > Bachelor 219 11%
Researcher 194 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 109 5%
Other 332 16%
Unknown 661 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 304 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 301 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 185 9%
Chemistry 126 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 94 5%
Other 268 13%
Unknown 752 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 252. 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 10 August 2026.
All research outputs
#184,979
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#2,146
of 51,856 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#647
of 203,332 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#8
of 468 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 51,856 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 203,332 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 468 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.