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Article details
Title
Safety Considerations in the Laboratory Testing of Specimens Suspected or Known to Contain the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Published in
Laboratory Medicine, April 2020
DOI 10.1093/labmed/lmaa018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Librarian 6 6%
Other 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 23 23%
Unknown 34 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 4%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 36 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 June 2020.
All research outputs
#17,413,091
of 28,984,240 outputs
Outputs from Laboratory Medicine
#560
of 1,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#212,669
of 408,492 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Laboratory Medicine
#5
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,984,240 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,378 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% 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 408,492 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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 73% of its contemporaries.