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A spike with which to beat COVID-19?

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, May 2020
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

Mentioned by

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8 news outlets
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35 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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Readers on

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79 Mendeley
Title
A spike with which to beat COVID-19?
Published in
Nature Reviews Microbiology, May 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41579-020-0383-2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Nawsad Alam, Matthew K. Higgins

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 18%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Other 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 22 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 4%
Engineering 3 4%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 25 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. 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 10 April 2023.
All research outputs
#503,996
of 25,809,966 outputs
Outputs from Nature Reviews Microbiology
#252
of 2,880 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,930
of 424,077 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Reviews Microbiology
#8
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,809,966 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,880 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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 424,077 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 52 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.