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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
188 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Convergent Processing of Both Positive and Negative Motivational Signals by the VTA Dopamine Neuronal Populations
Published in
PLOS ONE, February 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0017047
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 188 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
France 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Saudi Arabia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 174 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 41 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 20%
Student > Master 27 14%
Student > Bachelor 15 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 37 20%
Unknown 21 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 24%
Neuroscience 42 22%
Psychology 29 15%
Design 10 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 5%
Other 26 14%
Unknown 27 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 21 October 2022.
All research outputs
#2,681,164
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#28,810
of 224,517 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,084
of 272,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#220
of 1,681 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,517 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 272,833 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,681 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.