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It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, July 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 21,492)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Published in
Clinical Infectious Diseases, July 2020
DOI 10.1093/cid/ciaa939
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 914 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 112 12%
Student > Bachelor 86 9%
Student > Master 83 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 72 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 38 4%
Other 149 16%
Unknown 374 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 121 13%
Engineering 119 13%
Environmental Science 39 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 3%
Other 173 19%
Unknown 408 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9513. 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 20 August 2026.
All research outputs
#192
of 34,452,566 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#1
of 21,492 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17
of 459,873 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#1
of 496 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 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 21,492 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 459,873 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 496 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 99% of its contemporaries.