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Chicken Soup Really Is Good for the Soul

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, May 2011
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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
81 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
twitter
10 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
reddit
2 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
260 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Chicken Soup Really Is Good for the Soul
Published in
Psychological Science, May 2011
DOI 10.1177/0956797611407931
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 %
United States 6 2%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 241 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 23%
Student > Bachelor 37 14%
Researcher 31 12%
Student > Master 30 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 7%
Other 35 13%
Unknown 47 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 118 45%
Business, Management and Accounting 34 13%
Social Sciences 19 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 50 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 676. 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 05 August 2026.
All research outputs
#39,285
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#85
of 4,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73
of 162,197 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#1
of 56 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 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 56 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.