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Doxycycline or minocycline may be a viable treatment option against SARS-CoV-2

Overview of attention for article published in Medical Hypotheses, June 2020
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Doxycycline or minocycline may be a viable treatment option against SARS-CoV-2
Published in
Medical Hypotheses, June 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110054
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 16%
Researcher 6 16%
Librarian 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 7 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 22%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 14%
Social Sciences 4 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 9 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 04 April 2026.
All research outputs
#2,581,211
of 33,113,076 outputs
Outputs from Medical Hypotheses
#694
of 5,394 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,316
of 454,210 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Medical Hypotheses
#54
of 221 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,113,076 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,394 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 454,210 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 221 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.