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Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Studies, July 2011
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Article details
Title
Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
Published in
Journal of Development Studies, July 2011
DOI 10.1080/00220388.2010.509783
Authors

Sarmistha Pal, Robert Palacios

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
India 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 88 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 21%
Student > Master 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Researcher 7 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 8%
Other 18 20%
Unknown 26 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 30%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 20 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Mathematics 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 30 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 01 June 2015.
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#12,344,266
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Studies
#1,349
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#67,247
of 166,399 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Studies
#12
of 16 outputs
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