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Possible impact of rising sea levels on vector-borne infectious diseases

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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9 news outlets
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2 blogs
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Title
Possible impact of rising sea levels on vector-borne infectious diseases
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-11-18
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ranjan Ramasamy, Sinnathamby N Surendran

Abstract

Vector-borne infectious diseases are a significant cause of human and animal mortality and morbidity. Modeling studies predict that changes in climate that accompany global warming will alter the transmission risk of many vector-borne infectious diseases in different parts of the world. Global warming will also raise sea levels, which will lead to an increase in saline and brackish water bodies in coastal areas. The potential impact of rising sea levels, as opposed to climate change, on the prevalence of vector-borne infectious diseases has hitherto been unrecognised.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Cameroon 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 196 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 34 16%
Student > Master 31 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 12%
Other 11 5%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 43 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 24%
Environmental Science 36 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 10%
Social Sciences 17 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 7%
Other 26 13%
Unknown 44 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 76. 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 2022.
All research outputs
#551,113
of 25,144,989 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#133
of 8,470 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,425
of 195,050 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3
of 30 outputs
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