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The Benefits of Knitting for Personal and Social Wellbeing in Adulthood: Findings from an International Survey

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Occupational Therapy, February 2013
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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 1,001)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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news
124 news outlets
blogs
16 blogs
twitter
43 X users
facebook
14 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
5 Google+ users
reddit
6 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
2 podcasts

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mendeley
251 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Benefits of Knitting for Personal and Social Wellbeing in Adulthood: Findings from an International Survey
Published in
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, February 2013
DOI 10.4276/030802213x13603244419077
Authors

Jill Riley, Betsan Corkhill, Clare Morris

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 243 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 49 20%
Student > Bachelor 38 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 10%
Researcher 16 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 5%
Other 37 15%
Unknown 74 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 34 14%
Psychology 32 13%
Social Sciences 28 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 8%
Arts and Humanities 14 6%
Other 44 18%
Unknown 80 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1092. 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 18 July 2026.
All research outputs
#17,443
of 34,410,315 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Occupational Therapy
#1
of 1,001 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#76
of 366,083 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Occupational Therapy
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,315 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 1,001 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. 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 8 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