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The orphan child: humanities in modern medical education

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, January 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#30 of 235)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
16 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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21 Dimensions

Readers on

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42 Mendeley
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Title
The orphan child: humanities in modern medical education
Published in
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, January 2019
DOI 10.1186/s13010-018-0067-y
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mary E. Kollmer Horton

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 3 7%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 14 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 19%
Arts and Humanities 4 10%
Philosophy 3 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 17 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 30 December 2021.
All research outputs
#1,374,967
of 25,715,849 outputs
Outputs from Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
#30
of 235 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,259
of 447,753 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,715,849 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 235 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 447,753 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
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