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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Population Study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0063972 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Teri S. Krebs, Pål-Ørjan Johansen |
| Abstract |
The classical serotonergic psychedelics LSD, psilocybin, mescaline are not known to cause brain damage and are regarded as non-addictive. Clinical studies do not suggest that psychedelics cause long-term mental health problems. Psychedelics have been used in the Americas for thousands of years. Over 30 million people currently living in the US have used LSD, psilocybin, or mescaline. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 462 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 86 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 32 | 7% |
| Canada | 19 | 4% |
| France | 9 | 2% |
| Spain | 9 | 2% |
| Italy | 7 | 2% |
| Germany | 6 | 1% |
| Finland | 5 | 1% |
| Mexico | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 48 | 10% |
| Unknown | 236 | 51% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 398 | 86% |
| Scientists | 35 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 15 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 13 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 829 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 3 | <1% |
| Unknown | 807 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 181 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 127 | 15% |
| Researcher | 87 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 69 | 8% |
| Other | 42 | 5% |
| Other | 120 | 14% |
| Unknown | 203 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 180 | 22% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 135 | 16% |
| Neuroscience | 68 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 49 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 30 | 4% |
| Other | 146 | 18% |
| Unknown | 221 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1316. 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 22 November 2023.
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#10,134
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#135
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#39
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#4
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Altmetric has tracked 25,756,531 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 224,463 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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