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Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: why might they be hazardous?

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, May 2020
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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 (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
113 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
449 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
2 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
46 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
192 Mendeley
Title
Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: why might they be hazardous?
Published in
The Lancet, May 2020
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31174-0
Pubmed ID
Authors

Christian Funck-Brentano, Joe-Elie Salem

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 192 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 192 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 27 14%
Researcher 24 13%
Other 22 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 10%
Student > Master 14 7%
Other 49 26%
Unknown 37 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 58 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 14 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 3%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 56 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1268. 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 31 March 2024.
All research outputs
#10,839
of 25,770,491 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#348
of 42,994 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#581
of 426,273 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#30
of 379 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,770,491 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 42,994 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 68.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 426,273 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 379 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.