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Modeling the obesity epidemic: social contagion and its implications for control

Overview of attention for article published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 284)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Title
Modeling the obesity epidemic: social contagion and its implications for control
Published in
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1742-4682-10-17
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Authors

Keisuke Ejima, Kazuyuki Aihara, Hiroshi Nishiura

Abstract

As an obesity epidemic has grown worldwide, a variety of intervention programs have been considered, but a scientific approach to comparatively assessing the control programs has still to be considered. The present study aims to describe an obesity epidemic by employing a simple mathematical model that accounts for both social contagion and non-contagious hazards of obesity, thereby comparing the effectiveness of different types of interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ireland 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Tunisia 1 2%
Unknown 61 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 17%
Student > Bachelor 9 14%
Researcher 8 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 14 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 20%
Mathematics 12 19%
Social Sciences 6 9%
Psychology 4 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 15 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 10 November 2022.
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#2,969,863
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Outputs from Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
#33
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#23,742
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Outputs of similar age from Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
#2
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So far Altmetric has tracked 284 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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