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The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Language and Social Psychology, December 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 516)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
52 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
8 X users
patent
15 patents
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
6 Redditors

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mendeley
3784 Mendeley
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3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods
Published in
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, December 2009
DOI 10.1177/0261927x09351676
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 39 1%
United Kingdom 17 <1%
Netherlands 9 <1%
Germany 9 <1%
Australia 8 <1%
Spain 5 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Russia 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Other 22 <1%
Unknown 3666 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 901 24%
Student > Master 505 13%
Student > Bachelor 324 9%
Researcher 324 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 269 7%
Other 600 16%
Unknown 861 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 839 22%
Computer Science 554 15%
Social Sciences 389 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 387 10%
Linguistics 118 3%
Other 497 13%
Unknown 1000 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 505. 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 28 July 2026.
All research outputs
#64,875
of 34,421,733 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Language and Social Psychology
#4
of 516 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#130
of 239,190 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Language and Social Psychology
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,421,733 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 516 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.9. 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 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