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Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion

Overview of attention for article published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, February 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 191)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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32 X users
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1 Google+ user

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Title
Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion
Published in
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, February 2017
DOI 10.1007/s40750-017-0059-y
Authors

Rohan Kapitány, Mark Nielsen

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 41 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 17%
Student > Master 5 12%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 11 26%
Unknown 8 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 10%
Neuroscience 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 14 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. 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 30 July 2022.
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#442,649
of 25,399,318 outputs
Outputs from Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
#14
of 191 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,054
of 431,979 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
#2
of 6 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 191 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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