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Characteristics of meta-analyses and their component studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: a cross-sectional, descriptive analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
Characteristics of meta-analyses and their component studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: a cross-sectional, descriptive analysis
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-11-160
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Authors

Jonathan Davey, Rebecca M Turner, Mike J Clarke, Julian PT Higgins

Abstract

Cochrane systematic reviews collate and summarise studies of the effects of healthcare interventions. The characteristics of these reviews and the meta-analyses and individual studies they contain provide insights into the nature of healthcare research and important context for the development of relevant statistical and other methods.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Canada 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 169 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 17%
Researcher 31 17%
Student > Master 27 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 5%
Other 37 20%
Unknown 33 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 27%
Psychology 18 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 6%
Social Sciences 9 5%
Mathematics 9 5%
Other 34 19%
Unknown 52 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 04 November 2020.
All research outputs
#3,574,537
of 22,840,638 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#545
of 2,015 outputs
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#29,441
of 240,053 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#4
of 24 outputs
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