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Human rights protections are needed alongside PPE for health-care workers responding to COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet Global Health, May 2020
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Human rights protections are needed alongside PPE for health-care workers responding to COVID-19
Published in
The Lancet Global Health, May 2020
DOI 10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30252-7
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 14%
Other 13 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Master 7 7%
Professor 6 6%
Other 23 23%
Unknown 25 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Psychology 4 4%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 32 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. 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 14 October 2020.
All research outputs
#909,612
of 33,022,911 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet Global Health
#697
of 3,778 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,140
of 447,423 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet Global Health
#25
of 85 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,022,911 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,778 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 58.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 447,423 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 85 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 70% of its contemporaries.