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The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Youth

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Family Issues, May 2012
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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news
11 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
3 Redditors

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mendeley
117 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Youth
Published in
Journal of Family Issues, May 2012
DOI 10.1177/0192513x12444271
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 111 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 13%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 24 21%
Unknown 34 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 37 32%
Psychology 24 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 37 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. 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 16 August 2026.
All research outputs
#477,076
of 34,149,189 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Family Issues
#53
of 1,396 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,973
of 212,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Family Issues
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,149,189 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,396 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 23 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 91% of its contemporaries.