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Circulating mitochondrial DNA is an early indicator of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in JCI Insight, February 2021
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
24 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
46 X users
patent
2 patents
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
181 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 181 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Bachelor 16 9%
Other 15 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 8%
Student > Master 9 5%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 77 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 33 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 3%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 73 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 208. 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 22 October 2025.
All research outputs
#236,330
of 34,400,738 outputs
Outputs from JCI Insight
#73
of 5,158 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,715
of 480,889 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JCI Insight
#5
of 170 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,400,738 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 5,158 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 480,889 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 170 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.