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Social capital and health among older adults in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, September 2013
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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 (78th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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Title
Social capital and health among older adults in South Africa
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2318-13-100
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Authors

Shandir Ramlagan, Karl Peltzer, Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

Abstract

Little is known about social capital and health among older adults in South Africa. This study investigates the association between social capital and several health variables, namely: self-rated health, depressive symptoms, cognitive functioning and physical inactivity, among older South Africans.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Peru 1 <1%
Unknown 144 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Bachelor 17 12%
Student > Postgraduate 11 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 30 20%
Unknown 36 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 18%
Social Sciences 26 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 13%
Psychology 10 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 42 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 May 2016.
All research outputs
#4,848,273
of 23,743,910 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,260
of 3,229 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,131
of 206,475 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#11
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,743,910 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,229 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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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 62% of its contemporaries.