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What is habit and how can it be used to change real‐world behaviour? Narrowing the theory‐reality gap

Overview of attention for article published in Social & Personality Psychology Compass, May 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#39 of 985)
  • 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)

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news
16 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
14 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
11 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
146 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What is habit and how can it be used to change real‐world behaviour? Narrowing the theory‐reality gap
Published in
Social & Personality Psychology Compass, May 2024
DOI 10.1111/spc3.12975
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 146 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 17 12%
Student > Master 11 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Lecturer 6 4%
Researcher 6 4%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 75 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 18 12%
Unspecified 17 12%
Social Sciences 8 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 78 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 162. 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 06 July 2026.
All research outputs
#318,489
of 34,388,610 outputs
Outputs from Social & Personality Psychology Compass
#39
of 985 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,482
of 365,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social & Personality Psychology Compass
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,388,610 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 985 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 26.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 365,375 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.