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| Title |
Quality of Pharmaceutical Advertisements in Medical Journals: A Systematic Review
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0006350 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Noordin Othman, Agnes Vitry, Elizabeth E. Roughead |
| Abstract |
Journal advertising is one of the main sources of medicines information to doctors. Despite the availability of regulations and controls of drug promotion worldwide, information on medicines provided in journal advertising has been criticized in several studies for being of poor quality. However, no attempt has been made to systematically summarise this body of research. We designed this systematic review to assess all studies that have examined the quality of pharmaceutical advertisements for prescription products in medical and pharmacy journals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 103 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 19% |
| Researcher | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 19% |
| Unknown | 20 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 7 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 24 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 04 December 2020.
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#794,577
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#10,749
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#2,019
of 114,568 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#28
of 507 outputs
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