Altmetrics tracks mentions of scientific journal articles in news stories, blog posts, tweets, Facebook and other social media sites, in order to establish the wider "impact" of scientific literature outside academia. They have published their Top 100 articles for 2016, which includes a large number of health articles (with links):- Number one is Barak Obama's article in JAMA on US health care reform
- Number two is an article in BMJ, about medical error being the third leading cause of death in the US
- Number five is another JAMA article about the sugar industry and coronary heart disease
- Number six was from NEJM about Zika Virus and birth defects
- Number seven, again from JAMA, was related to the association between income and life expectancy in the US
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