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Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being

Overview of attention for article published in Mobile Media & Communication, November 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 419)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
24 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
14 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
5 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
60 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being
Published in
Mobile Media & Communication, November 2023
DOI 10.1177/20501579231212062
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 10 17%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 5%
Researcher 2 3%
Student > Master 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 35 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 10 17%
Psychology 5 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Computer Science 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 35 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 198. 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 25 October 2026.
All research outputs
#252,591
of 34,641,161 outputs
Outputs from Mobile Media & Communication
#7
of 419 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,180
of 400,930 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Mobile Media & Communication
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,641,161 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 419 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. 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 400,930 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 17 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 94% of its contemporaries.