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“Older, Entitled, and Extremely Out-of-Touch”: Does “OK, Boomer” Signify the Emergence of a New Older Adult Stereotype?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Gerontology, February 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 1,582)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
6 news outlets
twitter
5 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
20 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“Older, Entitled, and Extremely Out-of-Touch”: Does “OK, Boomer” Signify the Emergence of a New Older Adult Stereotype?
Published in
Journal of Applied Gerontology, February 2023
DOI 10.1177/07334648231154044
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 20 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Professor 1 5%
Librarian 1 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 5%
Unknown 15 75%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 10%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Unknown 15 75%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 31 July 2026.
All research outputs
#999,995
of 33,251,071 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Applied Gerontology
#46
of 1,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,601
of 517,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Applied Gerontology
#2
of 75 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,251,071 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,582 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 517,506 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 75 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 97% of its contemporaries.