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The Power of Food Scale. A new measure of the psychological influence of the food environment

Overview of attention for article published in Appetite, June 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
2 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
2 podcasts

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mendeley
584 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Power of Food Scale. A new measure of the psychological influence of the food environment
Published in
Appetite, June 2009
DOI 10.1016/j.appet.2009.05.016
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 1%
Germany 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 559 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 100 17%
Student > Master 88 15%
Researcher 63 11%
Student > Bachelor 57 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 40 7%
Other 86 15%
Unknown 150 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 139 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 74 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 7%
Social Sciences 36 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 6%
Other 83 14%
Unknown 179 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 07 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,098,566
of 29,774,653 outputs
Outputs from Appetite
#675
of 5,220 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,873
of 142,337 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Appetite
#3
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,774,653 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,220 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. 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 142,337 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.