Support U.S. research during COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Science, October 2020

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blogs: 1 blog

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Article details
Title	Support U.S. research during COVID-19
Published in	Science, October 2020
DOI	10.1126/science.abf1225
Pubmed ID	33122376
Authors	Michael M Crow, Jonathan Alger, Michael Amiridis, Dennis Assanis, Eric Barron, Mark P Becker, Rebecca M Blank, Gene D Block, Lee C Bollinger, Robert A Brown, Sylvia M Burwell, C Michael Cassidy, James P Clements, Steven Currall, John J DeGioia, Julio Frenk, W Kent Fuchs, Joan T A Gabel, Patrick D Gallagher, E Gordon Gee, Eric Isaacs, Lloyd A Jacobs, Farnam Jahanian, John Jenkins, Kristina M Johnson, Martha Kanter, Paul K Kearns, Mark Kennedy, Pradeep K Khosla, Laurie Leshin, Michael Lovell, Gary S May, Jere Morehead, Richard B Myers, Luis M Proenza, Clayton Rose, M David Rudd, Timothy D Sands, Mark S Schlissel, Elisa Stephens, Elizabeth Stroble, Kumble Subbaswamy, Satish Tripathi, Ruth Watkins, Adam Weinberg, Kim Wilcox, Deborah Wince-Smith, Wendy Wintersteen, W Randolph Woodson, Robert J Zimmer

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X Demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
United States	44	83%
Mexico	1	2%
Australia	1	2%
Japan	1	2%
Unknown	6	11%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	38	72%
Scientists	11	21%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	3	6%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	2%

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Unknown	17	100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Researcher	4	24%
Other	3	18%
Student > Ph. D. Student	2	12%
Student > Master	2	12%
Student > Doctoral Student	1	6%
Other	1	6%
Unknown	4	24%

Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	4	24%
Nursing and Health Professions	2	12%
Immunology and Microbiology	2	12%
Environmental Science	1	6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	1	6%
Other	3	18%
Unknown	4	24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 31 December 2020.

All research outputs

#937,639

of 33,849,731 outputs

Outputs from Science

#17,837

of 93,472 outputs

Outputs of similar age

#19,550

of 472,209 outputs

Outputs of similar age from Science

#351

of 1,178 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 33,849,731 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 93,472 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. 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 472,209 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 95% of its contemporaries.

We're also able to compare this research output to 1,178 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 70% of its contemporaries.