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Letter to the Editor: Quality of mental health information on Wikipedia

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Medicine, February 2012
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (51st percentile)

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3 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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5 Dimensions

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19 Mendeley
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Title
Letter to the Editor: Quality of mental health information on Wikipedia
Published in
Psychological Medicine, February 2012
DOI 10.1017/s0033291712000086
Pubmed ID
Authors

PAUL WICKS, VAUGHAN BELL

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
Unknown 18 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 26%
Researcher 3 16%
Other 2 11%
Student > Postgraduate 2 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 11%
Other 5 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 26%
Psychology 4 21%
Neuroscience 2 11%
Computer Science 2 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Other 3 16%
Unknown 2 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 10 April 2024.
All research outputs
#7,081,932
of 25,918,104 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Medicine
#2,665
of 5,536 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#59,611
of 258,196 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Medicine
#19
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,918,104 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,536 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 39 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its contemporaries.