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Real friends: how the Internet can foster friendship

Overview of attention for article published in Ethics and Information Technology, May 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#38 of 448)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets

Citations

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65 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
73 Mendeley
Title
Real friends: how the Internet can foster friendship
Published in
Ethics and Information Technology, May 2008
DOI 10.1007/s10676-008-9160-z
Authors

Adam Briggle

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Sweden 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Puerto Rico 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 67 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 34 47%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Student > Master 5 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 11 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 22%
Social Sciences 13 18%
Computer Science 8 11%
Philosophy 7 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 7%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 10 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 02 March 2018.
All research outputs
#1,028,256
of 25,658,541 outputs
Outputs from Ethics and Information Technology
#38
of 448 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,128
of 96,991 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ethics and Information Technology
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,658,541 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 448 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 96,991 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them