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Homeopathic Oscillococcinum® for preventing and treating influenza and influenza-like illness

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2015
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Title
Homeopathic Oscillococcinum® for preventing and treating influenza and influenza-like illness
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001957.pub6
Pubmed ID
Authors

Robert T Mathie, Joyce Frye, Peter Fisher

Abstract

Influenza is a highly infectious viral disease that is particularly common in the winter months. Oscillococcinum(®) is a patented homeopathic medicine that is made from a 1% solution of wild duck heart and liver extract, which is then serially diluted 200 times with water and alcohol.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 267 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 19%
Student > Bachelor 32 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 10%
Researcher 25 9%
Student > Postgraduate 16 6%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 82 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 85 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 12%
Psychology 14 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 4%
Other 31 12%
Unknown 85 32%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 241. 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 13 March 2023.
All research outputs
#135,145
of 23,426,104 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#245
of 12,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,619
of 356,120 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8
of 284 outputs
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