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Examining the news media reaction to a national sugary beverage tax in South Africa: a quantitative content analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2021
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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 (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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Title
Examining the news media reaction to a national sugary beverage tax in South Africa: a quantitative content analysis
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2021
DOI 10.1186/s12889-021-10460-1
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Authors

Michael Essman, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Elizabeth C. Swart, Lindsey Smith Taillie

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 19%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Lecturer 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 27 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 7 13%
Social Sciences 6 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 32 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 21 February 2022.
All research outputs
#2,660,876
of 23,549,388 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,996
of 15,276 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,133
of 422,712 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#83
of 403 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,549,388 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,276 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 422,712 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 403 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.