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Learning from Hackers: Open-Source Clinical Trials

Overview of attention for article published in Science Translational Medicine, May 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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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3 blogs
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33 X users
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1 Facebook page
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1 Google+ user
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1 Redditor

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Title
Learning from Hackers: Open-Source Clinical Trials
Published in
Science Translational Medicine, May 2012
DOI 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003682
Pubmed ID
Authors

Adam G. Dunn, Richard O. Day, Kenneth D. Mandl, Enrico Coiera

Abstract

Open sharing of clinical trial data has been proposed as a way to address the gap between the production of clinical evidence and the decision-making of physicians. A similar gap was addressed in the software industry by their open-source software movement. Here, we examine how the social and technical principles of the movement can guide the growth of an open-source clinical trial community.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 6%
Spain 2 4%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Finland 1 2%
Unknown 44 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 31%
Other 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 10%
Librarian 3 6%
Professor 3 6%
Other 15 29%
Unknown 3 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 4 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. 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 03 July 2017.
All research outputs
#1,002,252
of 25,375,376 outputs
Outputs from Science Translational Medicine
#2,099
of 5,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,991
of 169,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Translational Medicine
#20
of 90 outputs
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