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Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, October 2013
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Title
Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts
Published in
PLOS ONE, October 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0077444
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Authors

John McGrath, Preben Bo Mortensen, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Vera Ehrenstein, Liselotte Petersen

Abstract

Offspring of older men have impaired cognitive ability as children, but it is unclear if this impairment persists into adulthood. The main objective of this study was to explore the association between paternal age at offspring birth and general cognitive ability as young adults.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Hungary 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 18%
Other 2 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 10 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 21%
Psychology 5 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 12 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 28 November 2023.
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#4,532,078
of 25,473,687 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#79,769
of 221,912 outputs
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#39,316
of 222,900 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,212
of 5,131 outputs
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