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The Strength of Weaker Ties: An Underexplored Resource for Maintaining Emotional Well-Being in Later Life

Overview of attention for article published in Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, February 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 2,676)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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41 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
15 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor
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1 podcast

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113 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Strength of Weaker Ties: An Underexplored Resource for Maintaining Emotional Well-Being in Later Life
Published in
Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, February 2020
DOI 10.1093/geronb/gbaa019
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 113 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 17%
Researcher 12 11%
Student > Master 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 5 4%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 50 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 17%
Psychology 18 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 56 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 365. 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 15 July 2026.
All research outputs
#110,139
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences
#26
of 2,676 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,615
of 523,332 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences
#1
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,676 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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