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Paying attention: the neurocognition of archery, Middle Stone Age bow hunting, and the shaping of the sapient mind

Overview of attention for article published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, April 2024
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Paying attention: the neurocognition of archery, Middle Stone Age bow hunting, and the shaping of the sapient mind
Published in
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, April 2024
DOI 10.1007/s11097-024-09980-z
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Lecturer 2 8%
Unknown 15 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 8%
Psychology 2 8%
Sports and Recreations 2 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 16 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 13 August 2025.
All research outputs
#6,548,801
of 34,140,750 outputs
Outputs from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
#119
of 652 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#76,299
of 375,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,140,750 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 652 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 375,076 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 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.