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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Overview of attention for article published in Science, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 79,874)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Published in
Science, June 2021
DOI 10.1126/science.abg6296
Pubmed ID
Authors

Yafang Cheng, Nan Ma, Christian Witt, Steffen Rapp, Philipp S. Wild, Meinrat O. Andreae, Ulrich Pöschl, Hang Su

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 368 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 61 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 14%
Student > Bachelor 24 7%
Student > Master 22 6%
Other 22 6%
Other 76 21%
Unknown 112 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 8%
Chemistry 23 6%
Engineering 22 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 6%
Other 107 29%
Unknown 132 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9723. 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 03 October 2023.
All research outputs
#200
of 24,554,073 outputs
Outputs from Science
#11
of 79,874 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16
of 433,586 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#3
of 839 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,554,073 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 79,874 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 64.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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