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How Mean is the Mean?

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
14 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
40 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
199 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Title
How Mean is the Mean?
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00451
Pubmed ID
Authors

Craig P. Speelman, Marek McGann

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 3%
Germany 3 2%
United States 2 1%
Sweden 2 1%
Chile 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 175 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 20%
Researcher 34 17%
Student > Master 25 13%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 42 21%
Unknown 26 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 98 49%
Neuroscience 10 5%
Linguistics 9 5%
Engineering 7 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 3%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 40 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#323,546
of 26,485,427 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#676
of 35,463 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,108
of 294,788 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#31
of 966 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,485,427 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 35,463 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 294,788 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 966 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.