Susan L Hillier, Quinette Louw, Linzette Morris, Jeanine Uwimana, Sue Statham
Abstract
Infection with human immunodeficency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficency syndrome (AIDS) is a pandemic that has affected millions of people globally. Although major research and clinical initiatives are addressing prevention and cure strategies, issues of quality of life for survivors have received less attention. Massage therapy is proposed to have a positive effect on quality of life and may also have a positive effect on immune function through stress mediation.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 08 December 2020.
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#1,749,491
of 26,409,992 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,559
of 13,223 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,567
of 177,853 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#17
of 118 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,409,992 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,223 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 33.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 118 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.
