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The overprescription of antidepressants and its impact on the elderly in Australia

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, August 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 246)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)

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1 policy source
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8 X users
reddit
7 Redditors

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76 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The overprescription of antidepressants and its impact on the elderly in Australia
Published in
Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, August 2018
DOI 10.1590/2237-6089-2016-0077
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 76 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 33 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 11%
Psychology 6 8%
Neuroscience 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 31 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 05 October 2024.
All research outputs
#4,050,576
of 34,189,040 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
#28
of 246 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,053
of 373,387 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,189,040 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 246 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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