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Debunking mathematically the logical fallacy that cancer risk is just “bad luck”

Overview of attention for article published in EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics , December 2015
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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)

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Title
Debunking mathematically the logical fallacy that cancer risk is just “bad luck”
Published in
EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics , December 2015
DOI 10.1140/epjnbp/s40366-015-0026-0
Authors

D. Sornette, M. Favre

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 27%
Researcher 3 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 13%
Computer Science 1 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 7%
Other 2 13%
Unknown 3 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 May 2016.
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#680,694
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
#1
of 39 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,290
of 395,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
#1
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