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Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies

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Title
Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies
Published by
Nature, August 2021
DOI 10.1038/d41586-021-02081-w
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Authors

Sara Reardon

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Student > Master 4 7%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 25 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 25 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5326. 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 15 April 2024.
All research outputs
#726
of 25,750,437 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#55
of 98,661 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60
of 442,064 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#6
of 909 outputs
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