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Off label, compassionate and irrational use of medicines in Covid-19 pandemic, health consequences and ethical issues

Overview of attention for article published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, September 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Off label, compassionate and irrational use of medicines in Covid-19 pandemic, health consequences and ethical issues
Published in
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, September 2020
DOI 10.1590/1413-81232020259.16792020
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 351 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 78 22%
Student > Master 30 9%
Researcher 15 4%
Other 13 4%
Professor 10 3%
Other 41 12%
Unknown 164 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 53 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 51 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Other 32 9%
Unknown 169 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 20 November 2022.
All research outputs
#6,864,772
of 33,047,019 outputs
Outputs from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#384
of 2,295 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#123,956
of 445,871 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#15
of 56 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,047,019 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,295 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% 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 445,871 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 56 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.