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Availability of essential medicines in selected public, primary and secondary health care institutions of a rural Sri Lankan district: a spot survey

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, January 2017
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Title
Availability of essential medicines in selected public, primary and secondary health care institutions of a rural Sri Lankan district: a spot survey
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-016-1969-2
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Authors

Devarajan Rathish, Indika Premarathna, Thiwanka Jayathilake, Chathurika Kandegedara, Kalani Punchihewa, Lakmali Ananda, Thejani Bandara, Channa Jayasumana, Sisira Siribaddana

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Unknown 174 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 25 14%
Student > Master 23 13%
Researcher 15 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Lecturer 9 5%
Other 25 14%
Unknown 67 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 27%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 19 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 9%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 72 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 01 January 2021.
All research outputs
#6,546,606
of 23,195,584 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,169
of 7,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#122,272
of 422,239 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#51
of 123 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,195,584 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,768 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 123 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 56% of its contemporaries.