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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Against quantiles: categorization of continuous variables in epidemiologic research, and its discontents
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Research Methodology, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2288-12-21 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Caroline Bennette, Andrew Vickers |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 174 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 33 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 7% |
| Spain | 11 | 6% |
| Canada | 9 | 5% |
| Brazil | 6 | 3% |
| Australia | 5 | 3% |
| France | 5 | 3% |
| Finland | 4 | 2% |
| Ireland | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 11% |
| Unknown | 64 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 97 | 56% |
| Scientists | 60 | 34% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 15 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 357 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 351 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 71 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 65 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 49 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 5% |
| Other | 64 | 18% |
| Unknown | 66 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 96 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 23 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 20 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 83 | 23% |
| Unknown | 97 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 105. 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 September 2023.
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#406,552
of 25,703,943 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#31
of 2,310 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,749
of 168,683 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#1
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,703,943 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 2,310 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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