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Fighting COVID-19: Fear and Internal Conflict among Older Adults in Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, June 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (75th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Fighting COVID-19: Fear and Internal Conflict among Older Adults in Ghana
Published in
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, June 2020
DOI 10.1080/01634372.2020.1766630
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 215 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 15%
Student > Bachelor 32 15%
Researcher 16 7%
Other 11 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 5%
Other 33 15%
Unknown 79 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 23 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 9%
Social Sciences 18 8%
Psychology 11 5%
Arts and Humanities 8 4%
Other 50 23%
Unknown 85 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 31 December 2021.
All research outputs
#6,114,396
of 33,729,289 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Gerontological Social Work
#90
of 588 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#111,412
of 460,326 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Gerontological Social Work
#12
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,729,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 588 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 460,326 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 51 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.