Carl Heneghan

Well, interestingly, if you go this week, the altmetric top 100 of the year was released.

Yeah, so it's an alternative metric.

So as opposed to like the traditional metric is to look at sort of page views, page downloads and citations.

This looks at social media interaction use, like number of tweets, number of blogs that refer to the article, and number of news articles that refer.

And there's a slight weighting, so news articles get more than tweets.

So, for instance, you could say that a really impressive paper to me is an altmetric of about 1,000.

And the number one paper of the year was actually had an altmetric of 13,557 at this moment time, which is about realistic neural talking head models, whatever that's about.

But what's interesting in all this is that actually quite a number of BMJ papers in the top 100.

So it goes back to this time last year.

So it just incorporates last year's Christmas edition.

So last year's parachute paper to prevent death and major trauma

is in there at number 8 out of 100, with an alt metric of 6,371.

You've also got sugary drink consumption, that drinking sugary soda and fruit juice increases your risk of cancer, according to this study of more than 100,000 people.

Prevalence of cervical disease was in at number 42.

I like this one, and I'm not sure how this got in the top 100 though.

The effect of breakfast on weight and energy intake.

Could intermittent fasting really be the key to weight loss?

This meta-analysis of previous studies suggests skipping breakfast might be a good strategy if you're trying to lose weight.

And I guess right now, post-Christmas, there are quite a few people who might be considering skipping breakfast.

But my favorite, I think, was this one, which is really applicable now, is number 91 of 100, dose-response associations between accelerometry, measured physical activity, and sedentary time in all-cause mortality.