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The Emerging Role of Vitamin C in the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrients, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
twitter
49 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
4 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
337 Mendeley
Article details
Title
The Emerging Role of Vitamin C in the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19
Published in
Nutrients, October 2020
DOI 10.3390/nu12113286
Pubmed ID
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 337 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 44 13%
Student > Master 36 11%
Researcher 27 8%
Other 18 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 4%
Other 36 11%
Unknown 161 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 22 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 21 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 5%
Other 33 10%
Unknown 166 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. 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 21 June 2024.
All research outputs
#555,919
of 34,311,960 outputs
Outputs from Nutrients
#2,145
of 27,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,982
of 474,027 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nutrients
#79
of 802 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,311,960 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 27,960 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 474,027 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 802 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.