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The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, May 2021
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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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
51 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
1971 tweeters
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
143 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
219 Mendeley
Title
The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app
Published in
Nature, May 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-03606-z
Pubmed ID
Authors

Chris Wymant, Luca Ferretti, Daphne Tsallis, Marcos Charalambides, Lucie Abeler-Dörner, David Bonsall, Robert Hinch, Michelle Kendall, Luke Milsom, Matthew Ayres, Chris Holmes, Mark Briers, Christophe Fraser

Twitter Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,971 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 219 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 219 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 14%
Student > Master 15 7%
Other 12 5%
Student > Bachelor 10 5%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 76 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 12%
Social Sciences 19 9%
Computer Science 16 7%
Psychology 9 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 4%
Other 51 23%
Unknown 89 41%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1620. 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 27 March 2023.
All research outputs
#5,867
of 23,421,464 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#673
of 92,291 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#306
of 441,552 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#35
of 912 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,421,464 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 92,291 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 912 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 96% of its contemporaries.