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Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 virus/COVID-19 disease

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health , May 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 366)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
104 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
508 X users
facebook
10 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
14 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Readers on

mendeley
303 Mendeley

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 303 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 40 13%
Student > Master 25 8%
Other 23 8%
Researcher 23 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 7%
Other 49 16%
Unknown 123 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 64 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 12 4%
Other 31 10%
Unknown 134 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1228. 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 15 June 2025.
All research outputs
#14,012
of 34,567,073 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
#11
of 366 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#613
of 449,364 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,567,073 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 366 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 110.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 449,364 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.