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Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research, January 2003
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 155)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
6 tweeters
wikipedia
8 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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898 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
830 Mendeley
Summary Blogs Twitter Wikipedia Dimensions citations
Title
Published in
Arthritis Research, January 2003
DOI 10.1186/ar629
Pubmed ID
12723977
Authors

Jill PG Urban, Sally Roberts

Abstract

The intervertebral disc is a cartilaginous structure that resembles articular cartilage in its biochemistry, but morphologically it is clearly different. It shows degenerative and ageing changes earlier than does any other connective tissue in the body. It is believed to be important clinically because there is an association of disc degeneration with back pain. Current treatments are predominantly conservative or, less commonly, surgical; in many cases there is no clear diagnosis and therapy is considered inadequate. New developments, such as genetic and biological approaches, may allow better diagnosis and treatments in the future.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 802 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 136 16%
Student > Master 136 16%
Student > Bachelor 133 16%
Researcher 81 10%
Student > Postgraduate 54 7%
Other 143 17%
Unknown 147 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 226 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 185 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 75 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 47 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 3%
Other 98 12%
Unknown 175 21%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 29 March 2023.
All research outputs
#2,121,098
of 23,443,716 outputs
Outputs from Arthritis Research
#7
of 155 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,888
of 130,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research
#1
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,443,716 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 155 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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