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What happens in Brazil? A pandemic of misinformation that culminates in an endless disease burden

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 (#4 of 1,542)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Article details
Title
What happens in Brazil? A pandemic of misinformation that culminates in an endless disease burden
Published in
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, January 2021
DOI 10.1590/0037-8682-0713-2020
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Postgraduate 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 21 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 12%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 22 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 28 November 2022.
All research outputs
#839,528
of 34,563,371 outputs
Outputs from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#4
of 1,542 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,958
of 568,575 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#2
of 112 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,563,371 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 1,542 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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