↓ Skip to main content

Putting a balance on the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Hospital Infection, May 2020
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
twitter
81 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
136 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Putting a balance on the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2
Published in
Journal of Hospital Infection, May 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.014
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history

Loading chart data

Monthly Attention Score data from August 2022 to July 2025. Daily data from 25 July 2025.

An error occurred while generating this chart. Please try again later.

No score history available for this output yet. Please try again later.

Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 81 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 136 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 136 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Student > Master 9 7%
Other 31 23%
Unknown 36 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Engineering 9 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 31 23%
Unknown 47 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 29 September 2023.
All research outputs
#664,027
of 34,452,566 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Hospital Infection
#99
of 4,947 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,790
of 448,773 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Hospital Infection
#10
of 108 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,452,566 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,947 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 448,773 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 108 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.