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Oxytocin infusion increases charitable donations regardless of monetary resources

Overview of attention for article published in Hormones & Behavior, 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 (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
4 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

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225 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Oxytocin infusion increases charitable donations regardless of monetary resources
Published in
Hormones & Behavior, May 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.04.008
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
United Kingdom 3 1%
France 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 206 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 22%
Student > Master 36 16%
Student > Bachelor 28 12%
Researcher 23 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 8%
Other 45 20%
Unknown 25 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 97 43%
Social Sciences 21 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 5%
Neuroscience 12 5%
Other 41 18%
Unknown 29 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 83. 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 11 February 2025.
All research outputs
#650,919
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from Hormones & Behavior
#97
of 2,583 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,078
of 160,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Hormones & Behavior
#4
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 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 2,583 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 160,854 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its contemporaries.