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The Trajectory of Truth: A Longitudinal Study of the Illusory Truth Effect

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cognition, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 210)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
117 X users
reddit
6 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
63 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Trajectory of Truth: A Longitudinal Study of the Illusory Truth Effect
Published in
Journal of Cognition, June 2021
DOI 10.5334/joc.161
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Student > Master 3 5%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 38 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 14%
Psychology 5 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 39 62%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 115. 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 20 September 2025.
All research outputs
#462,912
of 34,425,846 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Cognition
#5
of 210 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,046
of 488,081 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cognition
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,425,846 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 210 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 488,081 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 2 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them