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Feeling like a burden to others: a systematic review focusing on the end of life

Overview of attention for article published in Palliative Medicine, March 2007
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
8 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

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161 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Feeling like a burden to others: a systematic review focusing on the end of life
Published in
Palliative Medicine, March 2007
DOI 10.1177/0269216307076345
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 2 1%
Australia 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 155 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 18%
Student > Master 28 17%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 10 6%
Other 32 20%
Unknown 35 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 22%
Psychology 31 19%
Social Sciences 26 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 11 7%
Unknown 39 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 10 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,414,642
of 34,320,268 outputs
Outputs from Palliative Medicine
#298
of 2,498 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,905
of 129,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Palliative Medicine
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,320,268 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,498 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 129,409 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 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 93% of its contemporaries.