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Title	Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials?
Published in	Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, January 2008
DOI	10.1186/1747-5341-3-14
Pubmed ID	18505564
Authors	John PA Ioannidis

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United States	12	11%
Spain	10	9%
Chile	5	4%
United Kingdom	5	4%
Canada	3	3%
Switzerland	2	2%
Australia	2	2%
Netherlands	2	2%
Puerto Rico	1	<1%
Other	13	12%
Unknown	58	51%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	97	86%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	8	7%
Scientists	6	5%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	<1%
Unknown	1	<1%

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 296 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	3	1%
Spain	2	<1%
Italy	1	<1%
Hong Kong	1	<1%
Norway	1	<1%
South Africa	1	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Brazil	1	<1%
United States	1	<1%
Other	0	0%
Unknown	284	96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Bachelor	44	15%
Student > Ph. D. Student	35	12%
Researcher	33	11%
Student > Master	29	10%
Other	28	9%
Other	79	27%
Unknown	48	16%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	99	33%
Psychology	60	20%
Neuroscience	16	5%
Social Sciences	13	4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	10	3%
Other	43	15%
Unknown	55	19%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 206. 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 22 March 2023.

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Altmetric has tracked 23,402,852 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 218 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.

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Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials?

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