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A Silent Response to the Obesity Epidemic

Overview of attention for article published in Medical care, February 2013
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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 (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
7 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
3 Redditors
guideline
2 clinical guideline sources

Readers on

mendeley
115 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Unknown 111 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 21%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 23 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 13%
Social Sciences 14 12%
Psychology 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 28 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. 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 13 January 2022.
All research outputs
#701,427
of 34,410,798 outputs
Outputs from Medical care
#133
of 4,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,619
of 344,298 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Medical care
#3
of 59 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,798 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 4,962 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 344,298 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 59 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 94% of its contemporaries.