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Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, mistrust, and compliance with government guidelines in England

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Medicine, May 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 5,547)
  • 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
145 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
98 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
571 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
715 Mendeley
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Title
Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, mistrust, and compliance with government guidelines in England
Published in
Psychological Medicine, May 2020
DOI 10.1017/s0033291720001890
Pubmed ID
Authors

Daniel Freeman, Felicity Waite, Laina Rosebrock, Ariane Petit, Chiara Causier, Anna East, Lucy Jenner, Ashley-Louise Teale, Lydia Carr, Sophie Mulhall, Emily Bold, Sinéad Lambe

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 715 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 84 12%
Student > Master 82 11%
Researcher 71 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 60 8%
Other 33 5%
Other 119 17%
Unknown 266 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 128 18%
Social Sciences 94 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 53 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 5%
Arts and Humanities 14 2%
Other 108 15%
Unknown 282 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1283. 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 22 February 2024.
All research outputs
#11,216
of 26,605,615 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Medicine
#3
of 5,547 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#568
of 428,956 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Medicine
#1
of 117 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,605,615 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 5,547 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 117 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 99% of its contemporaries.