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Cluster randomised trials in the medical literature: two bibliometric surveys

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, August 2004
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2 X users
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Title
Cluster randomised trials in the medical literature: two bibliometric surveys
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, August 2004
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-4-21
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Authors

J Martin Bland

Abstract

Several reviews of published cluster randomised trials have reported that about half did not take clustering into account in the analysis, which was thus incorrect and potentially misleading. In this paper I ask whether cluster randomised trials are increasing in both number and quality of reporting.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 134 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Master 15 10%
Professor 12 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 6%
Other 35 24%
Unknown 20 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 32%
Social Sciences 15 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Psychology 8 6%
Computer Science 5 3%
Other 31 21%
Unknown 30 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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 19 April 2020.
All research outputs
#4,171,485
of 22,789,566 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#687
of 2,011 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,478
of 58,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#2
of 6 outputs
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