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Importance of active case detection in a malaria elimination programme

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, May 2014
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (74th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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7 tweeters
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
Importance of active case detection in a malaria elimination programme
Published in
Malaria Journal, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-13-186
Pubmed ID
24885972
Authors

Renu Wickremasinghe, Sumadhya Deepika Fernando, Janani Thillekaratne, Panduka Mahendra Wijeyaratne, Ananda Rajitha Wickremasinghe

Abstract

With the aim of eliminating malaria from Sri Lanka by 2014, the Anti-Malaria Campaign of Sri Lanka (AMC) sought the support of Tropical and Environmental Disease and Health Associates Private Limited (TEDHA), a private sector organization. In 2009, TEDHA was assigned 43 government hospitals in the district of Mannar in the Northern Province and in districts of Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara in the Eastern Province to carry out malaria surveillance to complement the surveillance activities of the AMC. Passive case detection (PCD), activated passive case detection (APCD) and active case detection (ACD) for malaria have been routinely carried out in Sri Lanka.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 130 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 24%
Researcher 21 15%
Student > Bachelor 15 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 6%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 26 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 28%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 10%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 4%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 33 24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 02 June 2014.
All research outputs
#5,969,837
of 22,756,196 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#1,565
of 5,553 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#56,493
of 226,329 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#20
of 95 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,756,196 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,553 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 95 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its contemporaries.

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