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Forming a flossing habit: An exploratory study of the psychological determinants of habit formation

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Health Psychology, September 2012
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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 1,047)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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55 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
9 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
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3 YouTube creators

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Article details
Title
Forming a flossing habit: An exploratory study of the psychological determinants of habit formation
Published in
British Journal of Health Psychology, September 2012
DOI 10.1111/j.2044-8287.2012.02086.x
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
United Kingdom 4 1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 325 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 59 17%
Student > Master 57 17%
Student > Bachelor 47 14%
Researcher 36 11%
Other 15 4%
Other 53 16%
Unknown 71 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 94 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 10%
Social Sciences 23 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 19 6%
Computer Science 17 5%
Other 64 19%
Unknown 88 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 465. 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 21 July 2026.
All research outputs
#74,351
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Health Psychology
#5
of 1,047 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#269
of 226,373 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Health Psychology
#1
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 1,047 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 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 94% of its contemporaries.