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COVID-19—a very visible pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, August 2020
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (61st percentile)

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Article details
Title
COVID-19—a very visible pandemic
Published in
The Lancet, August 2020
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31675-5
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Student > Master 4 15%
Researcher 3 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 9 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 15%
Philosophy 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 9 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 01 June 2021.
All research outputs
#10,509,676
of 32,395,699 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#30,006
of 50,388 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#172,053
of 444,730 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#255
of 326 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,395,699 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 50,388 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.7. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 444,730 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 326 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 21st percentile – i.e., 21% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.