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OMG U got flu? Analysis of shared health messages for bio-surveillance

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, October 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 368)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
18 X users

Citations

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91 Dimensions

Readers on

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146 Mendeley
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4 CiteULike
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Title
OMG U got flu? Analysis of shared health messages for bio-surveillance
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/2041-1480-2-s5-s9
Pubmed ID
Authors

Nigel Collier, Nguyen Truong Son, Ngoc Mai Nguyen

Abstract

Micro-blogging services such as Twitter offer the potential to crowdsource epidemics in real-time. However, Twitter posts ('tweets') are often ambiguous and reactive to media trends. In order to ground user messages in epidemic response we focused on tracking reports of self-protective behaviour such as avoiding public gatherings or increased sanitation as the basis for further risk analysis.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Switzerland 2 1%
Pakistan 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 137 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 15%
Researcher 14 10%
Other 8 5%
Student > Bachelor 7 5%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 49 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 27 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 16%
Social Sciences 11 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 6%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Other 19 13%
Unknown 53 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 16 April 2012.
All research outputs
#1,701,012
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Biomedical Semantics
#9
of 368 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,027
of 145,919 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Biomedical Semantics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 368 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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