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Understanding the benefit of metformin use in cancer treatment

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, April 2011
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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)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

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9 X users
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1 patent
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Readers on

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321 Mendeley
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3 CiteULike
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Title
Understanding the benefit of metformin use in cancer treatment
Published in
BMC Medicine, April 2011
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-9-33
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ryan JO Dowling, Pamela J Goodwin, Vuk Stambolic

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 304 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 52 16%
Student > Bachelor 45 14%
Researcher 37 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 10%
Student > Postgraduate 28 9%
Other 67 21%
Unknown 59 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 87 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 59 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 46 14%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 18 6%
Chemistry 15 5%
Other 29 9%
Unknown 67 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 06 July 2021.
All research outputs
#3,364,233
of 23,289,753 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,907
of 3,500 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,596
of 110,383 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#17
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,289,753 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,500 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.8. This one is in the 45th percentile – i.e., 45% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its contemporaries.