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| Title |
Improving global health governance to combat counterfeit medicines: a proposal for a UNODC-WHO-Interpol trilateral mechanism
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-233 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tim K Mackey, Bryan A Liang |
| Abstract |
Perhaps no greater challenge exists for public health, patient safety, and shared global health security, than fake/falsified/fraudulent, poor quality unregulated drugs, also commonly known as "counterfeit medicines", now endemic in the global drug supply chain. Counterfeit medicines are prevalent everywhere, from traditional healthcare settings to unregulated sectors, including the Internet. These dangerous medicines are expanding in both therapeutic and geographic scope, threatening patient lives, leading to antimicrobial resistance, and profiting criminal actors. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 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 | 7 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 11% |
| Rwanda | 2 | 7% |
| Mali | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 9 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 56% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 15% |
| Scientists | 2 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 203 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 199 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 9% |
| Researcher | 17 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 33 | 16% |
| Unknown | 62 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 16% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 28 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 34 | 17% |
| Unknown | 67 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. 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 19 December 2021.
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#621,480
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#448
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#5,596
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#11
of 54 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,866,543 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,612 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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