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Community perceptions and practices of treatment seeking for childhood pneumonia: a mixed methods study in a rural district, Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2016
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Title
Community perceptions and practices of treatment seeking for childhood pneumonia: a mixed methods study in a rural district, Ghana
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3513-z
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Authors

Mercy Abbey, Margaret A. Chinbuah, Margaret Gyapong, L. Kay Bartholomew, Bart van den Borne

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Unknown 155 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 18%
Student > Master 26 17%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 6%
Other 19 12%
Unknown 44 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 20%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 3%
Other 16 10%
Unknown 51 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 28 June 2017.
All research outputs
#6,816,490
of 22,883,326 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,122
of 14,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#107,699
of 343,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#199
of 412 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,883,326 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,925 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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