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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The aging-disease false dichotomy: understanding senescence as pathology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Genetics, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fgene.2015.00212 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David Gems |
| Abstract |
From a biological perspective aging (senescence) appears to be a form of complex disease syndrome, though this is not the traditional view. This essay aims to foster a realistic understanding of aging by scrutinizing ideas old and new. The conceptual division between aging-related diseases and an underlying, non-pathological aging process underpins various erroneous traditional ideas about aging. Among biogerontologists, another likely error involves the aspiration to treat the entire aging process, which recent advances suggest is somewhat utopian. It also risks neglecting a more modest but realizable goal: to develop preventative treatments that partially protect against aging. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 9% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 15 | 68% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 68% |
| Scientists | 4 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 228 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 223 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 53 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 35 | 15% |
| Researcher | 25 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 11% |
| Other | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 24 | 11% |
| Unknown | 51 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 73 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 46 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 2% |
| Psychology | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Unknown | 59 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. 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 06 November 2023.
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#1,104,090
of 26,061,338 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Genetics
#180
of 13,844 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,219
of 265,380 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Genetics
#3
of 86 outputs
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