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Underestimation of COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in ERJ Open Research, 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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
39 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
9 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
66 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Underestimation of COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic
Published in
ERJ Open Research, December 2020
DOI 10.1183/23120541.00766-2020
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 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Master 7 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 27 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 15%
Social Sciences 5 8%
Environmental Science 4 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 28 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 06 July 2026.
All research outputs
#858,313
of 34,311,960 outputs
Outputs from ERJ Open Research
#71
of 2,321 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,131
of 569,915 outputs
Outputs of similar age from ERJ Open Research
#3
of 113 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 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,321 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. 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 569,915 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 96% 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 has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.