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The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review

Overview of attention for article published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, August 2002
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 1,899)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review
Published in
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, August 2002
DOI 10.1590/s0074-02762002000500002
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Authors

JCP Dias, AC Silveira, CJ Schofield

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 17 3%
United States 7 1%
Chile 4 <1%
Argentina 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 534 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 94 16%
Student > Master 93 16%
Researcher 84 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 42 7%
Other 89 15%
Unknown 116 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 186 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 84 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 52 9%
Chemistry 22 4%
Social Sciences 19 3%
Other 94 16%
Unknown 123 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 07 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,521,515
of 34,492,055 outputs
Outputs from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
#26
of 1,899 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,457
of 73,319 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,492,055 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,899 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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