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New COVID-19 saliva-based test: How good is it compared with the current nasopharyngeal or throat swab test?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, July 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 814)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
New COVID-19 saliva-based test: How good is it compared with the current nasopharyngeal or throat swab test?
Published in
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, July 2020
DOI 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000396
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 176 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 16%
Researcher 21 12%
Student > Master 16 9%
Other 12 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 6%
Other 16 9%
Unknown 73 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 4%
Other 30 17%
Unknown 77 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 08 March 2022.
All research outputs
#2,328,955
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
#26
of 814 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,287
of 455,912 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
#1
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 814 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.2. 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 455,912 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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 93% of its contemporaries.