You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
A double-blind placebo needle for acupuncture research
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, October 2007
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-7-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nobuari Takakura, Hiroyoshi Yajima |
| Abstract |
Placebo needles that can mask acupuncture practitioners to the type of needle used have been considered almost impossible to develop until now. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 13% |
| Spain | 1 | 13% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 53 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 11% |
| Researcher | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 19% |
| Unknown | 10 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 43% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Psychology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 19% |
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 20 December 2022.
All research outputs
#3,890,020
of 24,496,759 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#712
of 3,845 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,895
of 74,671 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#4
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,496,759 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,845 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 74,671 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.