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Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and Challenges

Overview of attention for article published in American Psychologist, May 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 3,744)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
74 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
twitter
31 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
527 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and Challenges
Published in
American Psychologist, May 2020
DOI 10.1037/amp0000591
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 527 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 50 9%
Student > Master 39 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 6%
Researcher 31 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 5%
Other 57 11%
Unknown 292 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 91 17%
Social Sciences 36 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 2%
Other 43 8%
Unknown 311 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 644. 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
#42,667
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from American Psychologist
#17
of 3,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,545
of 437,859 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Psychologist
#2
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 3,744 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 437,859 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 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 92% of its contemporaries.