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The Swiss cheese model of safety incidents: are there holes in the metaphor?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, November 2005
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

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8 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
36 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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109 Dimensions

Readers on

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664 Mendeley
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Title
The Swiss cheese model of safety incidents: are there holes in the metaphor?
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, November 2005
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-5-71
Pubmed ID
Authors

Thomas V Perneger

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Ireland 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Slovenia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 651 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 150 23%
Student > Bachelor 102 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 8%
Student > Postgraduate 36 5%
Researcher 32 5%
Other 100 15%
Unknown 188 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 150 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 78 12%
Engineering 46 7%
Psychology 41 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 29 4%
Other 113 17%
Unknown 207 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 112. 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 March 2024.
All research outputs
#378,811
of 25,621,213 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#59
of 8,720 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#474
of 76,998 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#2
of 4 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 8,720 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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