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Advancing medicine one research note at a time: the educational value in clinical case reports

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, 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 (86th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
Advancing medicine one research note at a time: the educational value in clinical case reports
Published in
BMC Research Notes, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-5-293
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Authors

Alberto J Cabán-Martinez, Wilfredo F García-Beltrán

Abstract

A case report--a brief written note that describes unique aspects of a clinical case--provides a significant function in medicine given its rapid, succinct, and educational contributions to scientific literature and clinical practice. Despite the growth of, and emphasis on, randomized clinical trials and evidenced-based medicine, case reports continue to provide novel and exceptional knowledge in medical education. The journal BMC Research Notes introduces a new "case reports" section to provide the busy clinician with a forum in which to document any authentic clinical case that provide educational value to current clinical practice. The aim is for this article type to be reviewed, wherever possible, by specialized Associate Editors for the journal, in order to provide rapid but thorough decision making. New ideas often garnered by and documented in case reports will support the advancement of medical science--one research note at a time.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Egypt 1 2%
Unknown 52 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 15%
Other 6 11%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Professor 4 8%
Other 19 36%
Unknown 5 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 49%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Linguistics 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 9 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 04 March 2013.
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#3,234,839
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#462
of 4,249 outputs
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#22,408
of 167,326 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#10
of 88 outputs
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