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Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 119,675)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2014
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1320040111
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 47 2%
United Kingdom 21 <1%
Spain 11 <1%
Brazil 11 <1%
Germany 10 <1%
Japan 9 <1%
Australia 5 <1%
Netherlands 5 <1%
Portugal 5 <1%
Other 43 1%
Unknown 2866 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 526 17%
Student > Master 366 12%
Student > Bachelor 355 12%
Researcher 291 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 134 4%
Other 518 17%
Unknown 843 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 460 15%
Social Sciences 458 15%
Computer Science 305 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 169 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 103 3%
Other 592 20%
Unknown 946 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7792. 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 October 2026.
All research outputs
#321
of 34,782,165 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#8
of 119,675 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3
of 275,843 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#1
of 945 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,782,165 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 119,675 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 945 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 99% of its contemporaries.