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Finding Pure and Simple Truths With Administrative Data

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, April 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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108 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Finding Pure and Simple Truths With Administrative Data
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, April 2012
DOI 10.1001/jama.2012.404
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 103 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 18%
Other 15 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 18 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 58 54%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 23 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 13 August 2025.
All research outputs
#1,735,577
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#12,372
of 42,269 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,323
of 209,017 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#61
of 328 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 42,269 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 73.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% 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 209,017 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 328 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.