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Self-medication among university students: the influence of the field of study

Overview of attention for article published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, December 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Self-medication among university students: the influence of the field of study
Published in
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, December 2012
DOI 10.1590/s1413-81232012001200017
Pubmed ID
Authors

Dayani Galato, Jaqueline Madalena, Greicy Borges Pereira

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Paraguay 1 <1%
Unknown 121 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 46 37%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Student > Master 6 5%
Professor 5 4%
Student > Postgraduate 5 4%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 44 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 23%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 20 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 2%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 48 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 26 July 2020.
All research outputs
#4,976,254
of 28,805,922 outputs
Outputs from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#245
of 2,185 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,613
of 300,030 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#2
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,805,922 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,185 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 300,030 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 34 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.