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The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. during the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, May 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
57 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
1035 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
906 Mendeley
citeulike
7 CiteULike
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Title
The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. during the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic
Published in
PLOS ONE, May 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0019467
Pubmed ID
Authors

Alessio Signorini, Alberto Maria Segre, Philip M. Polgreen

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 26 3%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
Spain 7 <1%
Portugal 5 <1%
Switzerland 4 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Other 18 2%
Unknown 826 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 192 21%
Student > Master 148 16%
Researcher 130 14%
Student > Bachelor 63 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 46 5%
Other 184 20%
Unknown 143 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 229 25%
Social Sciences 100 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 96 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 6%
Engineering 44 5%
Other 198 22%
Unknown 188 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 162. 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 09 August 2021.
All research outputs
#258,794
of 25,913,612 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,734
of 226,134 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#831
of 124,095 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#19
of 1,606 outputs
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