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Massage and touch for dementia

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2006
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
8 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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Title
Massage and touch for dementia
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2006
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004989.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Niels Viggo Hansen, Torben Jørgensen, Lisbeth Ørtenblad

Abstract

Massage and touch have been suggested as a non-pharmacological alternative or supplement to other treatments offered in order to reduce or manage a range of conditions associated with dementia such as anxiety, agitated behaviour and depression. It has also been suggested that massage and touch may counteract cognitive decline.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Iceland 1 <1%
Unknown 319 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 46 14%
Student > Master 46 14%
Student > Bachelor 44 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 7%
Student > Postgraduate 20 6%
Other 52 16%
Unknown 98 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 81 25%
Psychology 43 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 11%
Social Sciences 19 6%
Neuroscience 8 2%
Other 38 12%
Unknown 105 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 24 May 2022.
All research outputs
#1,341,352
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,848
of 11,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,290
of 84,801 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#7
of 72 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,842 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 72 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 90% of its contemporaries.