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Personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection among healthcare workers – What is the evidence?

Overview of attention for article published in International journal of clinical practice, September 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (77th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection among healthcare workers – What is the evidence?
Published in
International journal of clinical practice, September 2020
DOI 10.1111/ijcp.13617
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 194 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 30 15%
Student > Master 14 7%
Researcher 13 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 5%
Other 8 4%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 92 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 44 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 9%
Engineering 6 3%
Psychology 5 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Other 24 12%
Unknown 93 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 17 November 2021.
All research outputs
#6,007,582
of 34,400,738 outputs
Outputs from International journal of clinical practice
#645
of 3,264 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#102,464
of 455,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International journal of clinical practice
#13
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,400,738 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,264 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 455,036 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 77% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 51 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.