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How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 4,095)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
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Authors

A. Janet Tomiyama, Deborah Carr, Ellen M. Granberg, Brenda Major, Eric Robinson, Angelina R. Sutin, Alexandra Brewis

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 892 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 154 17%
Student > Master 100 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 76 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 7%
Researcher 56 6%
Other 138 15%
Unknown 309 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 130 15%
Psychology 118 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 90 10%
Social Sciences 51 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 30 3%
Other 127 14%
Unknown 346 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1603. 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 24 April 2024.
All research outputs
#7,081
of 25,807,758 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#13
of 4,095 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#119
of 341,700 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#1
of 69 outputs
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