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Quantifying the risk of error when interpreting funnel plots

Overview of attention for article published in Systematic Reviews, March 2015
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Title
Quantifying the risk of error when interpreting funnel plots
Published in
Systematic Reviews, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13643-015-0004-8
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Authors

Mark Simmonds

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 141 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 19%
Student > Bachelor 19 13%
Researcher 18 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Other 9 6%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 35 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 53 37%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 8%
Psychology 11 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 41 29%
Attention Score in Context

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 28 November 2017.
All research outputs
#7,041,169
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Systematic Reviews
#1,267
of 2,249 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,142
of 276,917 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Systematic Reviews
#22
of 42 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,249 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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