older people experience more chronic medical conditions than younger people, take more prescription medicines and are more likely to suffer from cognitive or memory problems. Older people are more susceptible to the adverse effects of medicines, which may reduce their quality of life or lead to hospitalisation or death.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
14
13%
Nursing and Health Professions
11
11%
Psychology
5
5%
Business, Management and Accounting
3
3%
Other
13
13%
Unknown
30
29%
Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 04 July 2010.
All research outputs
#9,598,958
of 34,364,397 outputs
Outputs from Age & Ageing
#2,597
of 4,673 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,165
of 149,620 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Age & Ageing
#15
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,364,397 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,673 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.0. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 149,620 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
