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Evaluating the Evidence for Fidget Toys in the Classroom

Overview of attention for article published in Intervention in School and Clinic, October 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 400)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
43 news outlets
twitter
18 X users
reddit
3 Redditors
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2 Bluesky users

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36 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Evaluating the Evidence for Fidget Toys in the Classroom
Published in
Intervention in School and Clinic, October 2022
DOI 10.1177/10534512221130070
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 6%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Lecturer 1 3%
Unknown 29 81%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 2 6%
Psychology 2 6%
Philosophy 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Design 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 29 81%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 355. 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 24 August 2026.
All research outputs
#114,899
of 34,351,437 outputs
Outputs from Intervention in School and Clinic
#1
of 400 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,846
of 468,164 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Intervention in School and Clinic
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,351,437 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 400 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 468,164 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 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