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| Title |
A low-cost method to assess the epidemiological importance of individuals in controlling infectious disease outbreaks
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-35 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Timo Smieszek, Marcel Salathé |
| Abstract |
Infectious disease outbreaks in communities can be controlled by early detection and effective prevention measures. Assessing the relative importance of each individual community member with respect to these two processes requires detailed knowledge about the underlying social contact network on which the disease can spread. However, mapping social contact networks is typically too resource-intensive to be a practical possibility for most communities and institutions. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 1 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 10 | 59% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 65% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 12% |
| Scientists | 2 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 82 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 9% |
| United States | 4 | 5% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 84% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 23% |
| Researcher | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 16% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 15 August 2014.
All research outputs
#1,385,526
of 25,261,240 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#976
of 3,965 outputs
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#12,956
of 300,135 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#26
of 86 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,261,240 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,965 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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