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Geospatial examination of lithium in drinking water and suicide mortality

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, June 2012
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
Geospatial examination of lithium in drinking water and suicide mortality
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-11-19
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Authors

Marco Helbich, Michael Leitner, Nestor D Kapusta

Abstract

Lithium as a substance occurring naturally in food and drinking water may exert positive effects on mental health. In therapeutic doses, which are more than 100 times higher than natural daily intakes, lithium has been proven to be a mood-stabilizer and suicide preventive. This study examined whether natural lithium content in drinking water is regionally associated with lower suicide rates.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 131 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 17%
Student > Master 16 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Postgraduate 10 7%
Other 26 19%
Unknown 24 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 23%
Social Sciences 12 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 7%
Psychology 8 6%
Environmental Science 7 5%
Other 34 25%
Unknown 35 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 06 March 2023.
All research outputs
#2,581,794
of 25,420,980 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#84
of 654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,022
of 181,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#3
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,420,980 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 654 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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