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You’re Having Fun When Time Flies

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, November 2009
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
63 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
twitter
8 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
344 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
You’re Having Fun When Time Flies
Published in
Psychological Science, November 2009
DOI 10.1177/0956797609354832
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 13 4%
United Kingdom 6 2%
Germany 5 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 315 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 82 24%
Student > Master 46 13%
Researcher 42 12%
Student > Bachelor 32 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Other 58 17%
Unknown 62 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 135 39%
Business, Management and Accounting 52 15%
Social Sciences 17 5%
Arts and Humanities 11 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 3%
Other 45 13%
Unknown 75 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 563. 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 02 July 2024.
All research outputs
#53,420
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#114
of 4,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88
of 239,620 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#1
of 72 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 4,561 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 85.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 72 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 98% of its contemporaries.