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Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises

Overview of attention for article published in Review of General Psychology, June 1998
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 537)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises
Published in
Review of General Psychology, June 1998
DOI 10.1037/1089-2680.2.2.175
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 28 <1%
United Kingdom 15 <1%
Germany 11 <1%
Australia 6 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
France 3 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Other 19 <1%
Unknown 3306 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 569 17%
Student > Master 481 14%
Student > Bachelor 399 12%
Researcher 264 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 165 5%
Other 537 16%
Unknown 984 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 662 19%
Social Sciences 383 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 327 10%
Computer Science 143 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 107 3%
Other 665 20%
Unknown 1112 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1231. 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 18 October 2026.
All research outputs
#13,979
of 34,601,289 outputs
Outputs from Review of General Psychology
#2
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2
of 49,096 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of General Psychology
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,289 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 537 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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