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The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in Italy: Worry Leads to Protective Behavior, but at the Cost of Anxiety

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, December 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (72nd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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1 blog
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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Title
The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in Italy: Worry Leads to Protective Behavior, but at the Cost of Anxiety
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, December 2020
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566659
Pubmed ID
Authors

Giulia Prete, Lilybeth Fontanesi, Piero Porcelli, Luca Tommasi

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 19%
Student > Master 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Other 4 7%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 20 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 22 38%
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 December 2020.
All research outputs
#5,770,276
of 23,271,751 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#8,323
of 30,891 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#140,129
of 508,383 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#335
of 916 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,271,751 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 30,891 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 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 916 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 63% of its contemporaries.