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Vinpocetine for cognitive impairment and dementia

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2003
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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14 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
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2 X users
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1 Facebook page
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5 Wikipedia pages
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1 YouTube creator

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Title
Vinpocetine for cognitive impairment and dementia
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2003
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd003119
Pubmed ID
Authors

Szabolcs Szatmári, Peter Whitehouse

Abstract

Vinpocetine is a synthetic ethyl ester of apovincamine, a vinca alkaloid obtained from the leaves of the Lesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor) and discovered in the late 1960s. Although used in human treatment for over twenty years, it has not been approved by any regulatory body for the treatment of cognitive impairment. Basic sciences studies have been used to claim a variety of potentially important effects in the brain. However, despite these many proposed mechanisms and targets, the relevance of this basic science to clinical studies is unclear.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 175 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 24 13%
Researcher 22 12%
Student > Master 18 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 7%
Other 9 5%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 65 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 6%
Psychology 10 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 4%
Other 34 19%
Unknown 72 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 131. 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 14 April 2024.
All research outputs
#322,756
of 25,712,965 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#537
of 13,134 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#422
of 139,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,712,965 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,134 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 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 94% of its contemporaries.