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Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: identifying and accounting for regression to the mean in nutrition and obesity research

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2020
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: identifying and accounting for regression to the mean in nutrition and obesity research
Published in
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2020
DOI 10.1093/ajcn/nqz196
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 82 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 17%
Student > Master 9 11%
Lecturer 8 10%
Other 5 6%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 22 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 15%
Sports and Recreations 5 6%
Psychology 4 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 29 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. 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 29 June 2020.
All research outputs
#1,668,457
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#2,969
of 15,381 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,390
of 516,358 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#34
of 90 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,381 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 516,358 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 90 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its contemporaries.