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Acupuncture for insomnia

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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4 news outlets
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2 blogs
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2 policy sources
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11 X users
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1 Facebook page
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11 Wikipedia pages
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1 YouTube creator

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Title
Acupuncture for insomnia
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd005472.pub3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Daniel KL Cheuk, Wing‐Fai Yeung, KF Chung, Virginia Wong

Abstract

Although conventional non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments for insomnia are effective in many people, alternative therapies such as acupuncture are widely practised. However, it remains unclear whether current evidence is rigorous enough to support acupuncture for the treatment of insomnia.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 434 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 91 21%
Student > Master 60 14%
Researcher 39 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 5%
Other 66 15%
Unknown 125 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 156 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 69 16%
Psychology 24 5%
Neuroscience 15 3%
Social Sciences 11 2%
Other 39 9%
Unknown 128 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 68. 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 15 March 2023.
All research outputs
#648,035
of 25,838,141 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,132
of 13,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,297
of 188,185 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#30
of 228 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,838,141 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,141 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 228 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.