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MERS-CoV in Africa—an enigma with relevance to COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, October 2020
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Article details
Title
MERS-CoV in Africa—an enigma with relevance to COVID-19
Published in
Lancet Infectious Diseases, October 2020
DOI 10.1016/s1473-3099(20)30578-8
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 23%
Researcher 8 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 10%
Other 4 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 14 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 6%
Other 11 23%
Unknown 13 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 September 2022.
All research outputs
#3,370,467
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Lancet Infectious Diseases
#3,129
of 7,196 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,723
of 467,034 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Lancet Infectious Diseases
#74
of 113 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,196 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 85.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% 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 467,034 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 85% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 113 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 34th percentile – i.e., 34% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.