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The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, December 2014
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
50 news outlets
blogs
53 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1495 X users
facebook
69 Facebook pages
googleplus
7 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

dimensions_citation
278 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
387 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
Title
The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study
Published in
British Medical Journal, December 2014
DOI 10.1136/bmj.g7015
Pubmed ID
Authors

Petroc Sumner, Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths, Jacky Boivin, Andy Williams, Christos A Venetis, Aimée Davies, Jack Ogden, Leanne Whelan, Bethan Hughes, Bethan Dalton, Fred Boy, Christopher D Chambers

Abstract

To identify the source (press releases or news) of distortions, exaggerations, or changes to the main conclusions drawn from research that could potentially influence a reader's health related behaviour.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,495 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 387 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Finland 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 364 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 64 17%
Student > Master 60 16%
Researcher 51 13%
Student > Bachelor 47 12%
Other 28 7%
Other 80 21%
Unknown 57 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 71 18%
Social Sciences 54 14%
Psychology 38 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 4%
Other 102 26%
Unknown 69 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1641. 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 18 December 2023.
All research outputs
#6,699
of 25,587,485 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#179
of 64,806 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36
of 369,448 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#6
of 908 outputs
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