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Can we reduce car use and, if so, how? A review of available evidence

Overview of attention for article published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice, June 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors

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552 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Can we reduce car use and, if so, how? A review of available evidence
Published in
Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice, June 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.tra.2011.02.001
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 8 1%
Germany 4 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 527 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 118 21%
Student > Master 98 18%
Researcher 85 15%
Student > Bachelor 48 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 4%
Other 81 15%
Unknown 101 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 97 18%
Engineering 95 17%
Environmental Science 53 10%
Psychology 48 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 30 5%
Other 105 19%
Unknown 124 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 April 2025.
All research outputs
#1,547,025
of 34,447,360 outputs
Outputs from Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice
#178
of 2,189 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,604
of 162,513 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,447,360 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,189 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.