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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it
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|---|---|
| Published in |
British Medical Journal, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.h6080 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Vinay Prasad, Jeanne Lenzer, David H Newman |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,477 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 | 159 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 148 | 10% |
| Spain | 97 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 83 | 6% |
| France | 49 | 3% |
| Canada | 47 | 3% |
| Japan | 42 | 3% |
| Australia | 35 | 2% |
| India | 15 | 1% |
| Other | 165 | 11% |
| Unknown | 637 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1028 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 201 | 14% |
| Scientists | 195 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 51 | 3% |
| Unknown | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 305 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 52 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 45 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 11% |
| Other | 34 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 7% |
| Other | 87 | 27% |
| Unknown | 45 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 155 | 48% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 3% |
| Psychology | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 47 | 15% |
| Unknown | 69 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1316. 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 11 April 2024.
All research outputs
#10,156
of 25,791,495 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#274
of 65,070 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112
of 402,458 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#4
of 920 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,791,495 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 65,070 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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