| Title |
Does long term use of psychiatric drugs cause more harm than good?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
British Medical Journal, May 2015
|
| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.h2435 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Peter C Gøtzsche, Allan H Young, John Crace |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 488 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 83 | 17% |
| Spain | 42 | 9% |
| United States | 40 | 8% |
| Canada | 22 | 5% |
| Australia | 13 | 3% |
| Ireland | 7 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1% |
| Japan | 5 | 1% |
| Chile | 4 | <1% |
| Other | 59 | 12% |
| Unknown | 208 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 352 | 72% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 71 | 15% |
| Scientists | 49 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 15 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 156 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 150 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 23 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 13% |
| Researcher | 19 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 36 | 23% |
| Unknown | 31 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 47 | 30% |
| Psychology | 27 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 14% |
| Unknown | 36 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 757. 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 29 April 2024.
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#26,609
of 25,848,962 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#594
of 65,153 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#204
of 280,065 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#4
of 976 outputs
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