Report for: Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold

Title	Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2013
DOI	10.1002/14651858.cd000980.pub4
Pubmed ID	23440782
Authors	Hemilä H, Chalker E, Hemilä H; Chalker E, Hemilä, Harri, Chalker, Elizabeth, Harri Hemilä, Elizabeth Chalker[show]
Abstract	Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for preventing and treating the common cold has been a subject of controversy for 70 years.[show]

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	39	8%
United States	35	7%
Saudi Arabia	32	7%
Spain	31	6%
Japan	13	3%
Canada	13	3%
Mexico	12	2%
Netherlands	12	2%
Thailand	10	2%
Other	69	14%
Unknown	219	45%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	406	84%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	43	9%
Scientists	25	5%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	10	2%
Unknown	1	<1%

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Country	Count	As %
Portugal	1	1%
United Kingdom	1	1%
Egypt	1	1%
Unknown	72	96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Bachelor	15	20%
Student > Master	15	20%
Researcher	13	17%
Student > Ph. D. Student	10	13%
Student > Postgraduate	6	8%
Other	16	21%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	32	43%
Nursing and Health Professions	13	17%
Social Sciences	6	8%
Psychology	5	7%
Unspecified	4	5%
Other	15	20%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1359. 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 31 January 2018.

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Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold

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