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Fear of missing out (FoMO): A generational phenomenon or an individual difference?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, August 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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19 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
video
2 YouTube creators

Citations

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64 Dimensions

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377 Mendeley
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Title
Fear of missing out (FoMO): A generational phenomenon or an individual difference?
Published in
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, August 2020
DOI 10.1177/0265407520945394
Authors

Christopher T. Barry, Megan Y. Wong

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 377 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 46 12%
Student > Master 20 5%
Unspecified 12 3%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 3%
Lecturer 11 3%
Other 31 8%
Unknown 245 65%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 56 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 5%
Social Sciences 16 4%
Unspecified 12 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 1%
Other 18 5%
Unknown 252 67%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 171. 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 16 October 2023.
All research outputs
#238,337
of 25,571,620 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#64
of 1,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,592
of 427,443 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#1
of 37 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,571,620 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 1,737 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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