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The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Medicine, September 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 9,429)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable
Published in
Nature Medicine, September 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41591-021-01535-y
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Jack M. Lawrence, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, James A. J. Heathers, Nicholas J. L. Brown, Kyle A. Sheldrick

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 22%
Other 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Master 6 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 22 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 7%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 28 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2887. 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 20 April 2024.
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#2,393
of 25,766,791 outputs
Outputs from Nature Medicine
#43
of 9,429 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#141
of 438,027 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Medicine
#2
of 105 outputs
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