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Vitamin C—An Adjunctive Therapy for Respiratory Infection, Sepsis and COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrients, December 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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
11 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
220 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
7 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
476 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Vitamin C—An Adjunctive Therapy for Respiratory Infection, Sepsis and COVID-19
Published in
Nutrients, December 2020
DOI 10.3390/nu12123760
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 476 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 72 15%
Student > Master 39 8%
Researcher 36 8%
Other 26 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 4%
Other 63 13%
Unknown 222 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 92 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 35 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 4%
Other 43 9%
Unknown 226 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 248. 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 26 January 2026.
All research outputs
#190,302
of 34,581,411 outputs
Outputs from Nutrients
#899
of 28,139 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,340
of 570,328 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nutrients
#34
of 787 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,581,411 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 28,139 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 570,328 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 787 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 95% of its contemporaries.