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Social media is a source of health-related misinformation

Overview of attention for article published in Evidence Based Nursing, February 2020
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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 (78th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

twitter
12 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
28 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Social media is a source of health-related misinformation
Published in
Evidence Based Nursing, February 2020
DOI 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103222
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Unspecified 1 4%
Researcher 1 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 20 71%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Unspecified 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 19 68%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 26 November 2021.
All research outputs
#6,203,653
of 33,116,471 outputs
Outputs from Evidence Based Nursing
#256
of 1,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112,073
of 514,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evidence Based Nursing
#4
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,116,471 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,679 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 514,962 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 78% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 31 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.