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Failing Bodies: Body Image and Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Health Research, August 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog

Readers on

mendeley
116 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Failing Bodies: Body Image and Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life
Published in
Qualitative Health Research, August 2008
DOI 10.1177/1049732308320113
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 116 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 111 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 20%
Student > Bachelor 16 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 11%
Researcher 13 11%
Student > Master 9 8%
Other 19 16%
Unknown 23 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 26 22%
Social Sciences 24 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 24 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 18 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,019,894
of 34,354,866 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Health Research
#56
of 2,175 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,107
of 135,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Health Research
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,354,866 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,175 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 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 92% of its contemporaries.