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Distracted driving in elderly and middle-aged drivers

Overview of attention for article published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, October 2011
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Distracted driving in elderly and middle-aged drivers
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention, October 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.aap.2011.09.040
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Germany 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 224 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 17%
Student > Bachelor 30 13%
Researcher 23 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 54 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 49 21%
Psychology 37 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 7%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 5%
Other 38 16%
Unknown 64 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 07 May 2026.
All research outputs
#1,936,034
of 32,686,267 outputs
Outputs from Accident Analysis & Prevention
#401
of 3,923 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,327
of 183,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Accident Analysis & Prevention
#5
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,686,267 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,923 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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