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Potential research ethics violations against an indigenous tribe in Ecuador: a mixed methods approach

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Ethics, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 1,337)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Potential research ethics violations against an indigenous tribe in Ecuador: a mixed methods approach
Published in
BMC Medical Ethics, October 2020
DOI 10.1186/s12910-020-00542-x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 82 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 12%
Lecturer 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Student > Master 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 35 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 20%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 5%
Psychology 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 37 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 68. 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 February 2026.
All research outputs
#798,049
of 34,435,279 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#36
of 1,337 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,976
of 470,948 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#1
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,435,279 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,337 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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