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How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Children and Media, February 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 538)
  • 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
11 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
16 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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60 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
126 Mendeley
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Title
How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework
Published in
Journal of Children and Media, February 2021
DOI 10.1080/17482798.2021.1882516
Pubmed ID
Authors

Marisa Meyer, Jennifer M. Zosh, Caroline McLaren, Michael Robb, Harlan McCaffery, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jenny Radesky

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 126 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 126 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Master 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 8 6%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 51 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 21 17%
Social Sciences 12 10%
Arts and Humanities 7 6%
Unspecified 6 5%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 56 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 118. 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 17 April 2024.
All research outputs
#361,392
of 25,729,842 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Children and Media
#13
of 538 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,893
of 454,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Children and Media
#1
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,729,842 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 538 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 35 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.