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Medical importance of candiru catfishes in Brazil: A brief essay

Overview of attention for article published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, January 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 1,504)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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4 X users
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8 Wikipedia pages
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1 Bluesky user
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1 podcast

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Article details
Title
Medical importance of candiru catfishes in Brazil: A brief essay
Published in
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, January 2021
DOI 10.1590/0037-8682-0540-2020
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 17%
Student > Postgraduate 2 17%
Other 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 3 25%
Arts and Humanities 1 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 10 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,080,941
of 34,020,007 outputs
Outputs from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#7
of 1,504 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,485
of 571,969 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#4
of 109 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,020,007 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,504 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 109 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 96% of its contemporaries.