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On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Public Health, March 2021
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
13 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
21 X users
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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166 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
947 Mendeley
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Title
On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health, March 2021
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2021.641673
Pubmed ID
Authors

Christian Montag, Haibo Yang, Jon D. Elhai

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 947 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 103 11%
Student > Master 53 6%
Lecturer 37 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 3%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 2%
Other 66 7%
Unknown 644 68%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 76 8%
Social Sciences 62 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 42 4%
Arts and Humanities 22 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 2%
Other 83 9%
Unknown 646 68%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 130. 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 21 June 2024.
All research outputs
#337,223
of 26,216,692 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#194
of 14,639 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,035
of 459,496 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#9
of 432 outputs
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