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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Why people make friends: The nature of friendship
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Personal Relationships, November 2020
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| DOI | 10.1111/pere.12352 |
| Authors |
Menelaos Apostolou, Despoina Keramari, Antonios Kagialis, Mark Sullman |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 76 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 41 | 54% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 22 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 3% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 41 | 54% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 24 May 2021.
All research outputs
#3,831,897
of 23,281,392 outputs
Outputs from Personal Relationships
#261
of 607 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#102,438
of 506,885 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personal Relationships
#9
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,281,392 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 607 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% 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 506,885 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 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 50% of its contemporaries.