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Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting infectious disease control

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, May 2011
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Title
Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting infectious disease control
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, May 2011
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-10-35
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Authors

Steven C Le Comber, DKim Rossmo, Ali N Hassan, Douglas O Fuller, John C Beier

Abstract

Geographic profiling is a statistical tool originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime. Here, we use two data sets--one historical and one modern--to show how it can be used to locate the sources of infectious disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
United States 2 1%
Czechia 2 1%
Chile 1 <1%
Pakistan 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 150 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 34 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 15%
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Bachelor 19 12%
Professor 9 5%
Other 29 18%
Unknown 23 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 13%
Environmental Science 17 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 9%
Social Sciences 13 8%
Other 35 21%
Unknown 29 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 25 December 2019.
All research outputs
#1,588,865
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#52
of 654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,620
of 123,558 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#2
of 11 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 654 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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