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Deconstructing the Better-Than-Average Effect

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, January 2010
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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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
200 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Deconstructing the Better-Than-Average Effect
Published in
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, January 2010
DOI 10.1037/a0020959
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Germany 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Serbia 1 <1%
Unknown 188 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 17%
Student > Bachelor 32 16%
Student > Master 28 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 18 9%
Researcher 14 7%
Other 36 18%
Unknown 38 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 82 41%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 12%
Social Sciences 22 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 12 6%
Computer Science 4 2%
Other 18 9%
Unknown 39 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. 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 28 September 2023.
All research outputs
#1,268,973
of 34,364,397 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#1,277
of 8,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,714
of 234,189 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#27
of 93 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,364,397 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,033 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 234,189 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 93 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 70% of its contemporaries.