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Synthetic and External Controls in Clinical Trials – A Primer for Researchers

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Epidemiology, May 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#50 of 728)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
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Citations

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Title
Synthetic and External Controls in Clinical Trials – A Primer for Researchers
Published in
Clinical Epidemiology, May 2020
DOI 10.2147/clep.s242097
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Authors

Kristian Thorlund, Louis Dron, Jay J H Park, Edward J Mills

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 172 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 13%
Other 18 10%
Student > Master 13 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Other 18 10%
Unknown 54 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 18 10%
Mathematics 15 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 8%
Computer Science 5 3%
Other 30 17%
Unknown 61 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 20 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,178,444
of 23,138,859 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Epidemiology
#50
of 728 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,509
of 378,470 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Epidemiology
#1
of 24 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,138,859 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 728 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 378,470 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 24 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 95% of its contemporaries.