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Reasons for and Characteristics Associated With Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adult Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review

Overview of attention for article published in Integrative Cancer Therapies, December 2005
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
guideline
1 clinical guideline source

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mendeley
158 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Reasons for and Characteristics Associated With Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adult Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review
Published in
Integrative Cancer Therapies, December 2005
DOI 10.1177/1534735405282361
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Philippines 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 153 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 25 16%
Researcher 21 13%
Student > Master 17 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 8%
Other 28 18%
Unknown 40 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 45 28%
Psychology 19 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 11%
Social Sciences 10 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 40 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 12 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,851,333
of 34,333,622 outputs
Outputs from Integrative Cancer Therapies
#132
of 1,004 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,779
of 218,175 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Integrative Cancer Therapies
#1
of 6 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,004 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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