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What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants and other psychotropic medications

Overview of attention for article published in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, March 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 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 (91st percentile)

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news
21 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
twitter
343 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
66 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
5 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
103 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants and other psychotropic medications
Published in
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, March 2021
DOI 10.1177/2045125321991274
Pubmed ID
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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 103 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 10%
Researcher 10 10%
Other 7 7%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 52 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 7%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Neuroscience 4 4%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 55 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 471. 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 04 August 2026.
All research outputs
#73,032
of 34,399,888 outputs
Outputs from Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
#5
of 470 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,041
of 481,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,399,888 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 26.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 481,962 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.