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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (75th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Patterns of symptoms possibly indicative of cancer and associated help-seeking behaviour in a large sample of United Kingdom residents—The USEFUL study
Published in
PLOS ONE, January 2020
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0228033
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Researcher 5 9%
Lecturer 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Professor 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 28 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Psychology 4 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 29 55%
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 30 January 2020.
All research outputs
#7,100,415
of 32,950,043 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#68,232
of 218,770 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#127,280
of 510,953 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#920
of 2,676 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,950,043 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 218,770 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 510,953 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 75% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2,676 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 65% of its contemporaries.