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Breaking habits or breaking habitual behaviours? Old habits as a neglected factor in weight loss maintenance

Overview of attention for article published in Appetite, February 2021
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
41 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
39 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

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147 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Breaking habits or breaking habitual behaviours? Old habits as a neglected factor in weight loss maintenance
Published in
Appetite, February 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105183
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 147 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Researcher 16 11%
Student > Master 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 4 3%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 71 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 25 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 5%
Sports and Recreations 5 3%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 73 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 350. 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 02 October 2025.
All research outputs
#116,717
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Appetite
#61
of 5,509 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,006
of 478,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Appetite
#1
of 101 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 5,509 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 26.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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