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How effective are social distancing policies? Evidence on the fight against COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, September 2021
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

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13 news outlets
twitter
54 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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40 Dimensions

Readers on

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71 Mendeley
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Title
How effective are social distancing policies? Evidence on the fight against COVID-19
Published in
PLOS ONE, September 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0257363
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ulrich Glogowsky, Emanuel Hansen, Simeon Schächtele

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 71 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Master 7 10%
Researcher 7 10%
Other 6 8%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 27 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 29 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 131. 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 29 May 2024.
All research outputs
#330,282
of 26,067,272 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#4,660
of 227,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,323
of 439,943 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#67
of 2,545 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,067,272 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 227,397 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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