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Tracking COVID-19 using taste and smell loss Google searches is not a reliable strategy

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, November 2020
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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 (80th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Title
Tracking COVID-19 using taste and smell loss Google searches is not a reliable strategy
Published in
Scientific Reports, November 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-77316-3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kim Asseo, Fabrizio Fierro, Yuli Slavutsky, Johannes Frasnelli, Masha Y. Niv

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Other 6 9%
Professor 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 23 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 25 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 22 December 2021.
All research outputs
#3,829,175
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#32,498
of 142,961 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,054
of 529,340 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#1,005
of 4,109 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 142,961 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4,109 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.