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Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, May 2010
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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
9 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
12 Redditors
video
6 YouTube creators
podcasts
2 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
764 Mendeley
citeulike
5 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
Published in
Psychological Science, May 2010
DOI 10.1177/0956797610371339
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 21 3%
Spain 3 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 725 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 147 19%
Student > Master 123 16%
Researcher 100 13%
Student > Bachelor 78 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 44 6%
Other 154 20%
Unknown 118 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 347 45%
Medicine and Dentistry 48 6%
Neuroscience 46 6%
Social Sciences 40 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 5%
Other 106 14%
Unknown 142 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 125. 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 2025.
All research outputs
#410,251
of 32,919,153 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#810
of 4,540 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,036
of 140,355 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#13
of 57 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,919,153 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,540 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 85.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 57 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its contemporaries.