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Not so fast: Rethinking the effects of action video games on attentional capacity

Overview of attention for article published in Australian Journal of Psychology, November 2020
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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)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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Title
Not so fast: Rethinking the effects of action video games on attentional capacity
Published in
Australian Journal of Psychology, November 2020
DOI 10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00001.x
Authors

Jessica L. Irons, Roger W. Remington, John P. McLean

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Spain 2 2%
Poland 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Belgium 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 99 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 20%
Student > Bachelor 19 17%
Student > Master 16 14%
Researcher 14 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 20 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 61 55%
Neuroscience 6 5%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Engineering 3 3%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 29 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 23 January 2012.
All research outputs
#4,850,449
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Outputs from Australian Journal of Psychology
#119
of 332 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#130,614
of 509,696 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Australian Journal of Psychology
#68
of 164 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,577,761 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 332 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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