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COVID-19 and mental health of older Africans: an urgency for public health policy and response strategy

Overview of attention for article published in International Psychogeriatrics, August 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 (74th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Article details
Title
COVID-19 and mental health of older Africans: an urgency for public health policy and response strategy
Published in
International Psychogeriatrics, August 2020
DOI 10.1017/s1041610220003312
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 287 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 7%
Researcher 17 6%
Student > Master 15 5%
Other 10 3%
Other 46 16%
Unknown 150 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 7%
Social Sciences 16 6%
Psychology 9 3%
Arts and Humanities 7 2%
Other 41 14%
Unknown 157 55%
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
#5,329,876
of 28,087,890 outputs
Outputs from International Psychogeriatrics
#484
of 2,135 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110,662
of 430,479 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Psychogeriatrics
#8
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,087,890 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,135 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 430,479 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its contemporaries.