↓ Skip to main content

Flossing for the management of periodontal diseases and dental caries in adults

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2011
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • 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)

Citations

dimensions_citation
173 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
249 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Flossing for the management of periodontal diseases and dental caries in adults
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008829.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Dario Sambunjak, Jason W Nickerson, Tina Poklepovic, Trevor M Johnson, Pauline Imai, Peter Tugwell, Helen V Worthington

Abstract

Good oral hygiene is thought to be important for oral health. This review is to determine the effectiveness of flossing in addition to toothbrushing for preventing gum disease and dental caries in adults.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 166 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 249 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 243 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 50 20%
Student > Bachelor 40 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 10%
Student > Postgraduate 24 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 6%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 60 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 129 52%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 4%
Psychology 8 3%
Social Sciences 5 2%
Other 18 7%
Unknown 65 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 574. 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 27 February 2024.
All research outputs
#41,395
of 25,571,620 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#77
of 13,156 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#122
of 247,861 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1
of 216 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,571,620 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,156 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 247,861 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 216 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.