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American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) -- A Tropical Disease Now in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, August 1993
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 policy source
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1 X user
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7 Wikipedia pages

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68 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) -- A Tropical Disease Now in the United States
Published in
New England Journal of Medicine, August 1993
DOI 10.1056/nejm199308263290909
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jane F. Desforges, Louis V. Kirchhoff

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 67 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 21%
Student > Bachelor 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Student > Master 6 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 14 21%
Unknown 9 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 18%
Chemistry 5 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 4%
Other 14 21%
Unknown 12 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 05 July 2026.
All research outputs
#6,768,447
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#23,442
of 38,368 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,183
of 28,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#68
of 133 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,257 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 38,368 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 120.2. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 28,754 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 133 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.