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Preoperative hair removal to reduce surgical site infection

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2011
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
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20 X users
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4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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279 Mendeley
Title
Preoperative hair removal to reduce surgical site infection
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004122.pub4
Pubmed ID
Authors

Judith Tanner, Peter Norrie, Kate Melen

Abstract

Although preparation of people for surgery has traditionally included removal of hair from the incision site, some studies claim that preoperative hair removal is harmful, causes surgical site infections (SSIs), and should be avoided.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 278 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 15%
Researcher 35 13%
Student > Postgraduate 31 11%
Student > Bachelor 29 10%
Other 24 9%
Other 46 16%
Unknown 73 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 124 44%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 2%
Neuroscience 5 2%
Other 25 9%
Unknown 77 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 18 June 2021.
All research outputs
#922,357
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,801
of 11,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,785
of 155,204 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#16
of 159 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,842 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 159 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.