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Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications: the social organisation of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology of Health & Illness, November 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Title
Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications: the social organisation of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices
Published in
Sociology of Health & Illness, November 2019
DOI 10.1111/1467-9566.12998
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Authors

Caroline Cupit, Janet Rankin, Natalie Armstrong, Graham P. Martin

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 16%
Student > Master 3 12%
Lecturer 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 9 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 16%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Linguistics 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Other 5 20%
Unknown 8 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 02 November 2023.
All research outputs
#1,752,379
of 25,724,500 outputs
Outputs from Sociology of Health & Illness
#322
of 2,127 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,403
of 477,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology of Health & Illness
#14
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,724,500 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,127 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.