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| Title |
The toxic truth about sugar
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1038/482027a |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt, Claire D. Brindis |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,405 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 | 262 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 91 | 6% |
| Canada | 66 | 5% |
| Australia | 40 | 3% |
| Spain | 32 | 2% |
| Brazil | 22 | 2% |
| Japan | 21 | 1% |
| Mexico | 21 | 1% |
| Colombia | 19 | 1% |
| Other | 266 | 19% |
| Unknown | 565 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1034 | 74% |
| Scientists | 224 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 105 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 42 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 690 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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 | 648 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 119 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 113 | 16% |
| Researcher | 90 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 84 | 12% |
| Other | 44 | 6% |
| Other | 131 | 19% |
| Unknown | 109 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 143 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 111 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 48 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 40 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 33 | 5% |
| Other | 186 | 27% |
| Unknown | 129 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1564. 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.
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#7,438
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#788
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#18
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#1
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So far Altmetric has tracked 98,911 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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