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Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#35 of 12,767)
  • 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
Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2014
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000530.pub3
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Authors

Marlies Karsch-Völk, Bruce Barrett, David Kiefer, Rudolf Bauer, Karin Ardjomand-Woelkart, Klaus Linde

Abstract

Echinacea plant preparations (family Asteraceae) are widely used in Europe and North America for common colds. Most consumers and physicians are not aware that products available under the term Echinacea differ appreciably in their composition, mainly due to the use of variable plant material, extraction methods and the addition of other components.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Unknown 364 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 84 23%
Student > Master 41 11%
Researcher 38 10%
Other 26 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 5%
Other 61 17%
Unknown 96 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 103 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 29 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 22 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 6%
Other 51 14%
Unknown 107 29%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 919. 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 15 May 2023.
All research outputs
#16,477
of 23,873,907 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#35
of 12,767 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#87
of 226,829 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3
of 240 outputs
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