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PC versus Macintosh Users: A Follow-up Study

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Reports, December 2003
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (54th percentile)

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Article details
Title
PC versus Macintosh Users: A Follow-up Study
Published in
Psychological Reports, December 2003
DOI 10.2466/pr0.2003.93.3.954
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Abstract

In a sample of 287 students, Macintosh users had significantly greater anxiety about computers than PC users.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 1 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 10 August 2010.
All research outputs
#7,646,787
of 28,841,988 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Reports
#794
of 2,575 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,977
of 159,417 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Reports
#3
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,841,988 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,575 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its contemporaries.