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Physician supply forecast: better than peering in a crystal ball?

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, February 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
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Title
Physician supply forecast: better than peering in a crystal ball?
Published in
Human Resources for Health, February 2009
DOI 10.1186/1478-4491-7-10
Pubmed ID
Authors

Dominique Roberfroid, Christian Leonard, Sabine Stordeur

Abstract

Anticipating physician supply to tackle future health challenges is a crucial but complex task for policy planners. A number of forecasting tools are available, but the methods, advantages and shortcomings of such tools are not straightforward and not always well appraised. Therefore this paper had two objectives: to present a typology of existing forecasting approaches and to analyse the methodology-related issues.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 1%
Chile 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Bahamas 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 138 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 22%
Student > Master 26 18%
Researcher 16 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 29 20%
Unknown 24 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 44 30%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 9%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 7%
Engineering 8 5%
Other 26 18%
Unknown 33 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 09 October 2021.
All research outputs
#5,240,151
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#595
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,795
of 189,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#3
of 18 outputs
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