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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Overview of attention for article published in Science, June 2021
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About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 78,877)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Published in
Science, June 2021
DOI 10.1126/science.abg6296
Pubmed ID
Authors

Yafang Cheng, Nan Ma, Christian Witt, Steffen Rapp, Philipp S. Wild, Meinrat O. Andreae, Ulrich Pöschl, Hang Su

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 367 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 61 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 14%
Other 22 6%
Student > Master 22 6%
Student > Bachelor 22 6%
Other 85 23%
Unknown 102 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 8%
Chemistry 23 6%
Engineering 23 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 6%
Other 116 32%
Unknown 120 33%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9837. 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 28 May 2023.
All research outputs
#198
of 23,864,146 outputs
Outputs from Science
#10
of 78,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17
of 445,611 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#2
of 838 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,864,146 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 78,877 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 445,611 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 838 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.