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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Alendronate for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2008
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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 (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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5 X users
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11 Wikipedia pages
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1 Google+ user

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Title
Alendronate for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2008
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001155.pub2
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Authors

George A Wells, Ann Cranney, Joan Peterson, Michel Boucher, Beverley Shea, Vivian Welch, Doug Coyle, Peter Tugwell

Abstract

Osteoporosis is an abnormal reduction in bone mass and bone deterioration leading to increased fracture risk. Alendronate belongs to the bisphosphonate class of drugs, which act to inhibit bone resorption by interfering with the activity of osteoclasts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 399 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 63 15%
Student > Bachelor 53 13%
Researcher 44 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 8%
Other 32 8%
Other 78 19%
Unknown 111 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 198 48%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 12 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 1%
Other 35 8%
Unknown 136 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 19 January 2022.
All research outputs
#3,555,109
of 26,150,873 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6,172
of 13,188 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,309
of 171,602 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#29
of 79 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,150,873 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,188 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% 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 171,602 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 79 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 63% of its contemporaries.