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The toxic truth about sugar

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, February 2012
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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)

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Title
The toxic truth about sugar
Published in
Nature, February 2012
DOI 10.1038/482027a
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Authors

Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt, Claire D. Brindis

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
United Kingdom 7 1%
Germany 5 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Other 10 1%
Unknown 645 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 118 17%
Student > Bachelor 111 16%
Researcher 91 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 84 12%
Other 44 6%
Other 136 20%
Unknown 103 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 141 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 111 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 48 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 6%
Social Sciences 33 5%
Other 191 28%
Unknown 123 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1563. 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 17 April 2024.
All research outputs
#7,385
of 25,729,842 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#785
of 98,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17
of 255,128 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#1
of 941 outputs
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