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Living Alone in the United States and Europe: The Impact of Public Support on the Independence of Older Adults

Overview of attention for article published in Research on Aging, March 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 598)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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21 news outlets
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7 X users

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57 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Living Alone in the United States and Europe: The Impact of Public Support on the Independence of Older Adults
Published in
Research on Aging, March 2020
DOI 10.1177/0164027520907332
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 57 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 12%
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Lecturer 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 27 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Engineering 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 27 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 133. 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 23 September 2026.
All research outputs
#395,934
of 34,394,870 outputs
Outputs from Research on Aging
#12
of 598 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,612
of 413,142 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research on Aging
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,394,870 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 598 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 particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 413,142 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 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them