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The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors

Overview of attention for article published in New Ideas in Psychology, April 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 497)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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news
25 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
52 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
28 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors
Published in
New Ideas in Psychology, April 2023
DOI 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.101005
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 1 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 18 64%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 4 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Physics and Astronomy 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 19 68%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 266. 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 13 October 2026.
All research outputs
#172,445
of 34,569,529 outputs
Outputs from New Ideas in Psychology
#6
of 497 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,772
of 451,525 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Ideas in Psychology
#2
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,569,529 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 497 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 451,525 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 7 of them.