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An Update on Current Therapeutic Drugs Treating COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Current Pharmacology Reports, May 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 165)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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2 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
35 X users
patent
3 patents
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
4 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
1057 Mendeley
Article details
Title
An Update on Current Therapeutic Drugs Treating COVID-19
Published in
Current Pharmacology Reports, May 2020
DOI 10.1007/s40495-020-00216-7
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1057 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 154 15%
Student > Master 107 10%
Researcher 92 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 70 7%
Other 48 5%
Other 194 18%
Unknown 392 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 208 20%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 109 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 90 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 4%
Chemistry 33 3%
Other 147 14%
Unknown 433 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. 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 June 2026.
All research outputs
#1,148,348
of 34,320,268 outputs
Outputs from Current Pharmacology Reports
#9
of 165 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,911
of 446,544 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Pharmacology Reports
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,320,268 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 165 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 446,544 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them