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Face masks could raise pollution risks

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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 (83rd percentile)

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news
29 news outlets
twitter
182 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
reddit
5 Redditors

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67 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Face masks could raise pollution risks
Published by
Nature, October 2019
DOI 10.1038/d41586-019-02938-1
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Professor 5 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Other 14 21%
Unknown 20 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 16%
Engineering 6 9%
Environmental Science 5 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Materials Science 2 3%
Other 16 24%
Unknown 24 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 339. 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 07 July 2024.
All research outputs
#122,994
of 34,427,148 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#7,458
of 117,696 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,049
of 392,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#166
of 1,026 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,427,148 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 117,696 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 392,407 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 1,026 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.