Valeria CC Marinho, Julian PT Higgins, Stuart Logan, Aubrey Sheiham
Abstract
Topical fluoride therapy (TFT) in the form of varnish, gel, mouthrinse or toothpaste has been used extensively as a caries-preventive intervention for over three decades.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 07 September 2015.
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#5,627,011
of 26,180,771 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#7,742
of 13,191 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,398
of 56,880 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#18
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,180,771 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,191 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.5. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.
