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Changes in Physicians' Attitudes Toward Telling the Cancer Patient

Overview of attention for article published in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1979
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
22 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
4 Redditors
guideline
1 clinical guideline source

Readers on

mendeley
73 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Changes in Physicians' Attitudes Toward Telling the Cancer Patient
Published in
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1979
DOI 10.1001/jama.1979.03290350017012
Pubmed ID
Authors

Dennis H. Novack, Robin Plumer, Raymond L. Smith, Herbert Ochitill, Gary R. Morrow, John M. Bennett

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Unknown 71 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 24 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 23%
Psychology 8 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Philosophy 2 3%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 26 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 14 September 2026.
All research outputs
#811,561
of 34,599,687 outputs
Outputs from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#7,601
of 42,596 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38
of 8,735 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
#1
of 76 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,599,687 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 42,596 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 72.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 8,735 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 76 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 98% of its contemporaries.