↓ Skip to main content

IOP Publishing

Photoplethysmography and its application in clinical physiological measurement

Overview of attention for article published in Physiological Measurement, February 2007
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 1,466)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
44 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
9 X users
patent
40 patents
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
video
2 YouTube creators

Citations

dimensions_citation
2805 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
2629 Mendeley
citeulike
5 CiteULike
Title
Photoplethysmography and its application in clinical physiological measurement
Published in
Physiological Measurement, February 2007
DOI 10.1088/0967-3334/28/3/r01
Pubmed ID
Authors

John Allen

Abstract

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple and low-cost optical technique that can be used to detect blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue. It is often used non-invasively to make measurements at the skin surface. The PPG waveform comprises a pulsatile ('AC') physiological waveform attributed to cardiac synchronous changes in the blood volume with each heart beat, and is superimposed on a slowly varying ('DC') baseline with various lower frequency components attributed to respiration, sympathetic nervous system activity and thermoregulation. Although the origins of the components of the PPG signal are not fully understood, it is generally accepted that they can provide valuable information about the cardiovascular system. There has been a resurgence of interest in the technique in recent years, driven by the demand for low cost, simple and portable technology for the primary care and community based clinical settings, the wide availability of low cost and small semiconductor components, and the advancement of computer-based pulse wave analysis techniques. The PPG technology has been used in a wide range of commercially available medical devices for measuring oxygen saturation, blood pressure and cardiac output, assessing autonomic function and also detecting peripheral vascular disease. The introductory sections of the topical review describe the basic principle of operation and interaction of light with tissue, early and recent history of PPG, instrumentation, measurement protocol, and pulse wave analysis. The review then focuses on the applications of PPG in clinical physiological measurements, including clinical physiological monitoring, vascular assessment and autonomic function.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,629 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 <1%
United Kingdom 10 <1%
Germany 6 <1%
Canada 6 <1%
Switzerland 6 <1%
Spain 5 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
India 3 <1%
Austria 2 <1%
Other 21 <1%
Unknown 2557 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 419 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 395 15%
Student > Bachelor 391 15%
Researcher 299 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 109 4%
Other 339 13%
Unknown 677 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 973 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 225 9%
Computer Science 179 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 73 3%
Physics and Astronomy 59 2%
Other 349 13%
Unknown 771 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 384. 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 16 January 2024.
All research outputs
#79,126
of 25,169,746 outputs
Outputs from Physiological Measurement
#1
of 1,466 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#91
of 87,995 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Physiological Measurement
#1
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,169,746 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,466 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 87,995 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.