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The Needs of Foster Parents

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Social Work, September 2006
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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 (82nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Needs of Foster Parents
Published in
Qualitative Social Work, September 2006
DOI 10.1177/1473325006067365
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 90 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 13%
Student > Master 12 13%
Researcher 10 11%
Professor 7 8%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 23 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 31 34%
Psychology 23 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 26 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 23 July 2026.
All research outputs
#4,979,524
of 33,729,289 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Social Work
#96
of 552 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,981
of 121,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Social Work
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,729,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 552 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 121,430 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them