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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 4,138)
  • 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)

Mentioned by

news
43 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
80 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
video
2 YouTube creators

Citations

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747 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
902 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 902 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 130 14%
Student > Master 87 10%
Researcher 79 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 66 7%
Student > Postgraduate 44 5%
Other 146 16%
Unknown 350 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 167 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 66 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 58 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 34 4%
Other 166 18%
Unknown 375 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 432. 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 17 November 2023.
All research outputs
#66,121
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Aging
#15
of 4,138 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,642
of 431,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Aging
#2
of 243 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,297 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,138 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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