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| Title |
The perceptions on male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection and considerations in scaling up of the services: a qualitative study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-529 |
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| Authors |
Edith AM Tarimo, Joel M Francis, Deodatus Kakoko, Patricia Munseri, Muhammad Bakari, Eric Sandstrom |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 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 | 2 | 33% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Mexico | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 33% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 180 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 177 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 34 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 16% |
| Researcher | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 9% |
| Other | 28 | 16% |
| Unknown | 36 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 13% |
| Unknown | 40 | 22% |
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 07 March 2024.
All research outputs
#7,715,426
of 25,440,205 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,483
of 17,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#53,569
of 178,235 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#131
of 345 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,440,205 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 17,593 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 345 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 62% of its contemporaries.