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Why does COVID-19 disproportionately affect older people?

Overview of attention for article published in Aging, 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 (#15 of 4,321)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
45 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
78 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
video
2 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
937 Mendeley
Title
Why does COVID-19 disproportionately affect older people?
Published in
Aging, May 2020
DOI 10.18632/aging.103344
Pubmed ID
Authors

Amber L Mueller, Maeve S McNamara, David A Sinclair

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 937 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 133 14%
Student > Master 89 9%
Researcher 81 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 7%
Student > Postgraduate 45 5%
Other 147 16%
Unknown 374 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 170 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 67 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 61 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 35 4%
Other 169 18%
Unknown 400 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 449. 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 June 2024.
All research outputs
#66,826
of 26,690,210 outputs
Outputs from Aging
#15
of 4,321 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,557
of 436,210 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Aging
#1
of 246 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,321 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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