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Typologies of loneliness, living alone and social isolation, and their associations with physical and mental health

Overview of attention for article published in Ageing & Society, April 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 1,419)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
15 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
2 Redditors

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437 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Typologies of loneliness, living alone and social isolation, and their associations with physical and mental health
Published in
Ageing & Society, April 2018
DOI 10.1017/s0144686x18000132
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 437 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 10%
Researcher 41 9%
Student > Bachelor 40 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 5%
Other 63 14%
Unknown 177 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 80 18%
Social Sciences 70 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 2%
Other 41 9%
Unknown 192 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 03 August 2024.
All research outputs
#1,042,314
of 34,550,734 outputs
Outputs from Ageing & Society
#37
of 1,419 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,753
of 373,184 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ageing & Society
#1
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,550,734 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,419 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 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 96% of its contemporaries.