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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Antibiotics for preventing infection in open limb fractures
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2004
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd003764.pub2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard A Gosselin, Ian Roberts, William J Gillespie |
| Abstract |
Wound and bone infections are frequently associated with open fractures of the extremities and may add significantly to the resulting morbidity. The administration of antibiotics is routinely used in developed countries as an adjunct to a comprehensive management protocol that also includes irrigation, surgical debridement and stabilisation when indicated, and is thought to reduce the frequency of infections. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 18 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 3 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Chile | 1 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 72% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 28% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 322 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Singapore | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 310 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 50 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 35 | 11% |
| Other | 34 | 11% |
| Researcher | 26 | 8% |
| Other | 63 | 20% |
| Unknown | 74 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 186 | 58% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 1% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 1% |
| Other | 23 | 7% |
| Unknown | 85 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 14 February 2023.
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#1,242,550
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,602
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,119
of 147,690 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,499 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
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