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Probiotics and microbiota composition

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Probiotics and microbiota composition
Published in
BMC Medicine, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0629-z
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Authors

Mary Ellen Sanders

Abstract

Accumulated evidence, corroborated by a new systematic review by Kristensen et al. (Genome Med 8:52, 2016), suggests that probiotics do not significantly impact the fecal microbiota composition of healthy subjects. Nevertheless, physiological benefits have been associated with probiotic consumption by healthy people. Some studies have suggested that probiotics may impact the function of colonizing microbes, although this needs to be further studied. An alternative hypothesis is that probiotics may promote homeostasis of the gut microbiota, rather than change its composition. This hypothesis warrants investigation as a possible mechanism for how probiotics may benefit healthy people.Please see related article: http://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-016-0300-5 .

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 1%
Japan 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 137 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 30 21%
Student > Master 23 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 14%
Researcher 18 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 23 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 15 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 32 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 07 December 2017.
All research outputs
#2,075,599
of 24,885,505 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,409
of 3,878 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,487
of 346,099 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#23
of 39 outputs
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