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The Right Thing at the Right Time: Why Ostensive Naming Facilitates Word Learning

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Title
The Right Thing at the Right Time: Why Ostensive Naming Facilitates Word Learning
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00088
Pubmed ID
Authors

Emma L. Axelsson, Kirsten Churchley, Jessica S. Horst

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Unknown 75 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 29%
Student > Bachelor 13 17%
Researcher 11 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Professor 4 5%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 10 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 58%
Linguistics 7 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 15 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 28 January 2021.
All research outputs
#5,763,541
of 22,886,568 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#8,355
of 29,991 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,254
of 244,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#144
of 481 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,886,568 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 29,991 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 481 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 70% of its contemporaries.