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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Why do surgeons continue to perform unnecessary surgery?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Patient Safety in Surgery, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13037-016-0117-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Philip F. Stahel, Todd F. VanderHeiden, Fernando J. Kim |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 114 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 States | 16 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 14 | 12% |
| Australia | 10 | 9% |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 | 5% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Unknown | 49 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 92 | 81% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 14 | 12% |
| Scientists | 8 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 38 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 38 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 8 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 3 | 8% |
| Unknown | 10 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 11% |
| Engineering | 3 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 5% |
| Chemical Engineering | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 16% |
| Unknown | 12 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 495. 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 07 April 2024.
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Altmetric has tracked 25,655,374 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 252 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them