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Understanding gender differences in older people's attitudes towards life-prolonging medical technologies

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Aging Studies, December 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (57th percentile)

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2 blogs
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1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Understanding gender differences in older people's attitudes towards life-prolonging medical technologies
Published in
Journal of Aging Studies, December 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.jaging.2008.05.009
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Spain 1 3%
Unknown 30 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 22%
Researcher 4 13%
Professor 3 9%
Student > Master 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 8 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 22%
Psychology 5 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Computer Science 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 8 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 06 May 2024.
All research outputs
#3,369,426
of 32,125,052 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Aging Studies
#82
of 595 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,586
of 231,419 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Aging Studies
#3
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,125,052 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 595 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 231,419 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.