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Are cloth masks a substitute to medical masks in reducing transmission and contamination? A systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Oral Research, January 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 525)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Are cloth masks a substitute to medical masks in reducing transmission and contamination? A systematic review
Published in
Brazilian Oral Research, January 2020
DOI 10.1590/1807-3107bor-2020.vol34.0123
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 117 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 20 17%
Student > Master 13 11%
Researcher 12 10%
Student > Postgraduate 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 19 16%
Unknown 40 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 6%
Engineering 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Environmental Science 4 3%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 45 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 17 October 2022.
All research outputs
#2,271,727
of 32,481,885 outputs
Outputs from Brazilian Oral Research
#10
of 525 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,469
of 511,038 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brazilian Oral Research
#3
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,481,885 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 525 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 2.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 58 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.