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Smartphone and social media addiction: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of Canadian teenagers

Overview of attention for article published in The Canadian Review of Sociology, February 2021
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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 (74th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Title
Smartphone and social media addiction: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of Canadian teenagers
Published in
The Canadian Review of Sociology, February 2021
DOI 10.1111/cars.12319
Pubmed ID
Authors

Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 195 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 195 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Student > Master 16 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 7%
Lecturer 12 6%
Unspecified 7 4%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 101 52%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 18 9%
Social Sciences 16 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Other 22 11%
Unknown 106 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 04 August 2021.
All research outputs
#4,739,575
of 25,541,640 outputs
Outputs from The Canadian Review of Sociology
#91
of 345 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#115,369
of 455,058 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Canadian Review of Sociology
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,541,640 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 345 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% 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 455,058 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.