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A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen: A Meta-Analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Educational Research, March 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 1,021)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
22 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
305 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
11 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
571 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen: A Meta-Analysis
Published in
Review of Educational Research, March 2021
DOI 10.3102/0034654321998074
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 571 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 8%
Student > Master 30 5%
Lecturer 23 4%
Researcher 23 4%
Unspecified 21 4%
Other 80 14%
Unknown 351 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 55 10%
Psychology 34 6%
Linguistics 27 5%
Arts and Humanities 23 4%
Unspecified 21 4%
Other 44 8%
Unknown 367 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 455. 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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#77,066
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Review of Educational Research
#13
of 1,021 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,126
of 481,084 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Educational Research
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 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 1,021 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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