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Death of the ALARA Radiation Protection Principle as Used in the Medical Sector

Overview of attention for article published in Dose-Response, April 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
twitter
10 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
4 Redditors

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mendeley
194 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Death of the ALARA Radiation Protection Principle as Used in the Medical Sector
Published in
Dose-Response, April 2020
DOI 10.1177/1559325820921641
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 194 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 31 16%
Student > Master 10 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 3%
Lecturer 5 3%
Researcher 5 3%
Other 15 8%
Unknown 122 63%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 9%
Physics and Astronomy 7 4%
Engineering 4 2%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 2%
Other 13 7%
Unknown 127 65%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 16 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,531,798
of 34,151,039 outputs
Outputs from Dose-Response
#51
of 598 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,164
of 435,648 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Dose-Response
#2
of 23 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 598 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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