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A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 470)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
133 news outlets
blogs
22 blogs
policy
11 policy sources
twitter
47 X users
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages
reddit
11 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
1939 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness
Published in
Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2010
DOI 10.1177/1088868310377394
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Hong Kong 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 1911 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 249 13%
Student > Master 243 13%
Student > Bachelor 227 12%
Researcher 171 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 101 5%
Other 287 15%
Unknown 661 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 541 28%
Social Sciences 183 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 139 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 92 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 40 2%
Other 210 11%
Unknown 734 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1237. 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 28 September 2026.
All research outputs
#13,841
of 34,601,305 outputs
Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Review
#2
of 470 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18
of 151,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Review
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,305 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 470 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 67.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them