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What Are Lightness Illusions and Why Do We See Them?

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Computational Biology, September 2007
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Article details
Title
What Are Lightness Illusions and Why Do We See Them?
Published in
PLoS Computational Biology, September 2007
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030180
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 5 4%
United States 3 2%
Sweden 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 126 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 20%
Researcher 24 17%
Student > Bachelor 23 16%
Student > Master 17 12%
Professor 10 7%
Other 22 16%
Unknown 16 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 41 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 16%
Computer Science 12 9%
Engineering 10 7%
Neuroscience 9 6%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 20 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 27 November 2024.
All research outputs
#3,517,780
of 28,841,988 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Computational Biology
#2,773
of 9,570 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,548
of 93,069 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Computational Biology
#8
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,841,988 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,570 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 32 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.