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Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind

Overview of attention for article published in Child Development Perspectives, May 2023
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind
Published in
Child Development Perspectives, May 2023
DOI 10.1111/cdep.12483
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Other 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Researcher 2 5%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 22 59%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 7 19%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 22 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 22 February 2025.
All research outputs
#3,077,227
of 30,057,621 outputs
Outputs from Child Development Perspectives
#173
of 619 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,395
of 402,660 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Child Development Perspectives
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 30,057,621 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 619 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% 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 402,660 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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