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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Laughter and humor as complementary and alternative medicines for dementia patients
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-10-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Masatoshi Takeda, Ryota Hashimoto, Takashi Kudo, Masayasu Okochi, Shinji Tagami, Takashi Morihara, Golam Sadick, Toshihisa Tanaka |
| Abstract |
The number of dementia patients has increased worldwide, with an estimated 13.7 million dementia patients in the Asia Pacific region alone. This number is expected to increase to 64.6 million by the year 2050. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 21% |
| Portugal | 1 | 7% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 4 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 155 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 151 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 11% |
| Other | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 32 | 21% |
| Unknown | 24 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 37 | 24% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 11% |
| Unknown | 29 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 19 February 2024.
All research outputs
#874,961
of 25,391,066 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#123
of 3,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,439
of 103,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#3
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,391,066 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,960 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.