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One is the loneliest number… Two can be as bad as one. The influence of AI Friendship Apps on users' well‐being and addiction

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology & Marketing, September 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#19 of 1,201)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
2 X users
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
203 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
One is the loneliest number… Two can be as bad as one. The influence of AI Friendship Apps on users' well‐being and addiction
Published in
Psychology & Marketing, September 2023
DOI 10.1002/mar.21899
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 203 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 18 9%
Researcher 14 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 4%
Student > Master 8 4%
Lecturer 6 3%
Other 24 12%
Unknown 124 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 24 12%
Unspecified 19 9%
Psychology 8 4%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Computer Science 3 1%
Other 14 7%
Unknown 129 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 152. 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 30 May 2026.
All research outputs
#332,344
of 33,135,331 outputs
Outputs from Psychology & Marketing
#19
of 1,201 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,503
of 379,710 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology & Marketing
#2
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,135,331 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,201 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.6. 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 379,710 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.