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The Experiences and Challenges of Informal Caregivers

Overview of attention for article published in Gerontologist, December 2001
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
policy
3 policy sources

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mendeley
59 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Experiences and Challenges of Informal Caregivers
Published in
Gerontologist, December 2001
DOI 10.1093/geront/41.6.733
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 58 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 11 19%
Student > Bachelor 8 14%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 10%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 10 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 14%
Psychology 6 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 10 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 08 July 2024.
All research outputs
#2,856,032
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Gerontologist
#544
of 3,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,011
of 184,373 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Gerontologist
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,282 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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