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Title	A 'snip' in time: what is the best age to circumcise?
Published in	BMC Pediatrics, February 2012
DOI	10.1186/1471-2431-12-20
Pubmed ID	22373281
Authors	Brian J Morris, Jake H Waskett, Joya Banerjee, Richard G Wamai, Aaron AR Tobian, Ronald H Gray, Stefan A Bailis, Robert C Bailey, Jeffrey D Klausner, Robin J Willcourt, Daniel T Halperin, Thomas E Wiswell, Adrian Mindel
Abstract	Circumcision is a common procedure, but regional and societal attitudes differ on whether there is a need for a male to be circumcised and, if so, at what age. This is an important issue for many parents, but also pediatricians, other doctors, policy makers, public health authorities, medical bodies, and males themselves.

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United States	33	31%
United Kingdom	8	7%
Australia	3	3%
Canada	3	3%
Ireland	2	2%
Mexico	1	<1%
Netherlands	1	<1%
Korea, Republic of	1	<1%
South Africa	1	<1%
Other	8	7%
Unknown	46	43%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	99	93%
Scientists	3	3%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	3	3%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	2%

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United States	4	2%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Bangladesh	1	<1%
Nigeria	1	<1%
Unknown	181	96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Bachelor	28	15%
Student > Master	27	14%
Researcher	19	10%
Student > Ph. D. Student	19	10%
Student > Postgraduate	14	7%
Other	38	20%
Unknown	43	23%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	65	35%
Social Sciences	16	9%
Nursing and Health Professions	15	8%
Psychology	10	5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	8	4%
Other	23	12%
Unknown	51	27%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 127. 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 13 March 2023.

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#287,155

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Outputs from BMC Pediatrics

#21

of 3,098 outputs

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#1,264

of 156,819 outputs

Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics

of 33 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 23,392,375 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 3,098 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.

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A 'snip' in time: what is the best age to circumcise?

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