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The curse of uncertainty

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Medicine, May 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (81st percentile)

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Title
The curse of uncertainty
Published in
Nature Medicine, May 2017
DOI 10.1038/nm.4342
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 1 50%
Student > Master 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 50%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 25 July 2017.
All research outputs
#3,410,847
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Nature Medicine
#4,771
of 9,320 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#59,193
of 324,919 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Medicine
#57
of 66 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,320 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 105.0. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 324,919 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 66 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 13th percentile – i.e., 13% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.