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Lower Incidence of COVID-19 at High Altitude: Facts and Confounders

Overview of attention for article published in High Altitude Medicine & Biology, September 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 (#4 of 740)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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19 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
29 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
146 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Lower Incidence of COVID-19 at High Altitude: Facts and Confounders
Published in
High Altitude Medicine & Biology, September 2020
DOI 10.1089/ham.2020.0114
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 146 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 16%
Student > Bachelor 18 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 8%
Professor 9 6%
Other 6 4%
Other 28 19%
Unknown 50 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 27%
Environmental Science 8 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 3%
Other 29 20%
Unknown 53 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 169. 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 02 October 2021.
All research outputs
#304,090
of 34,634,910 outputs
Outputs from High Altitude Medicine & Biology
#4
of 740 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,205
of 456,305 outputs
Outputs of similar age from High Altitude Medicine & Biology
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,634,910 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 740 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.9. 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 456,305 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 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 93% of its contemporaries.