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Title |
Body piercing and tattoos: a survey on young adults' knowledge of the risks and practices in body art
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-11-774 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Alessia Quaranta, Christian Napoli, Fabrizio Fasano, Claudio Montagna, Giuseppina Caggiano, Maria Teresa Montagna |
Abstract |
The practice of tattooing and piercing has expanded in western society. In order to verify young adults' knowledge of the risk and practices related to body art, an investigation was conducted among freshmen of the University of Bari in the region of Apulia, Italy. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
United States | 1 | 20% |
Australia | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 596 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Chile | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 594 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 136 | 23% |
Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 2% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 1% |
Researcher | 6 | 1% |
Student > Master | 6 | 1% |
Other | 19 | 3% |
Unknown | 412 | 69% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 87 | 15% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 56 | 9% |
Psychology | 9 | 2% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | <1% |
Social Sciences | 5 | <1% |
Other | 19 | 3% |
Unknown | 415 | 70% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 13 June 2012.
All research outputs
#6,689,351
of 22,653,392 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,953
of 14,735 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,143
of 135,640 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#87
of 200 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,653,392 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,735 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 200 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.