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The use of antibiotics in the intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2020
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Title
The use of antibiotics in the intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Malawi
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2020
DOI 10.1186/s12879-020-05505-6
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Authors

Raphael Kazidule Kayambankadzanja, Moses Lihaka, Andreas Barratt-Due, Mtisunge Kachingwe, Wezzie Kumwenda, Rebecca Lester, Sithembile Bilima, Jaran Eriksen, Tim Baker

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 89 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 12%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Researcher 4 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 3%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 47 53%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 10 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 47 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 October 2022.
All research outputs
#7,251,204
of 25,292,378 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,412
of 8,527 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#148,532
of 427,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#46
of 164 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,292,378 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,527 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 164 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.