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Pharmacokinetic considerations on the repurposing of ivermectin for treatment of COVID‐19

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 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 (#3 of 7,032)
  • 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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81 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
132 X users
reddit
26 Redditors
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4 YouTube creators

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149 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Pharmacokinetic considerations on the repurposing of ivermectin for treatment of COVID‐19
Published in
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, July 2020
DOI 10.1111/bcp.14476
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 149 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 25 17%
Researcher 10 7%
Other 9 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Student > Master 8 5%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 61 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 19 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Chemistry 6 4%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 64 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 765. 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 23 July 2026.
All research outputs
#32,343
of 34,622,316 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
#3
of 7,032 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,115
of 441,185 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
#1
of 127 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,622,316 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 7,032 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 particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 127 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.