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Loneliness and social support among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people aged 50 and over

Overview of attention for article published in Ageing & Society, July 2015
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Title
Loneliness and social support among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people aged 50 and over
Published in
Ageing & Society, July 2015
DOI 10.1017/s0144686x1500080x
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 144 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 22%
Student > Master 22 15%
Researcher 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 42 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 32 22%
Social Sciences 28 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 8%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 46 32%
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 20 January 2026.
All research outputs
#20,930,839
of 33,957,889 outputs
Outputs from Ageing & Society
#975
of 1,408 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#161,429
of 301,058 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ageing & Society
#18
of 23 outputs
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