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Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Global Health Journal, July 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 3,041)
  • 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)

Mentioned by

news
70 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1593 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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85 Dimensions

Readers on

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76 Mendeley
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Title
Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19
Published in
BMJ Global Health Journal, July 2021
DOI 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006653
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Samir Bhatt, Oliver Ratmann, Jan Markus Brauner, Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Mrinank Sharma, Sören Mindermann, Valerie Bradley, Michaela Vollmer, Lea Merone, Gavin Yamey

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 76 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 16%
Other 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Professor 4 5%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 27 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 8%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 5%
Environmental Science 4 5%
Other 21 28%
Unknown 30 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1559. 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 23 April 2024.
All research outputs
#7,462
of 25,793,330 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Global Health Journal
#7
of 3,041 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#362
of 448,653 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Global Health Journal
#1
of 172 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,793,330 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 3,041 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 172 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 99% of its contemporaries.