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Is Efficiency Overrated?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, September 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 1,615)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
144 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
14 blogs
twitter
81 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
3 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
bluesky
4 Bluesky users
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
222 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is Efficiency Overrated?
Published in
Social Psychological and Personality Science, September 2013
DOI 10.1177/1948550613502990
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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 213 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 21%
Student > Bachelor 35 16%
Student > Master 25 11%
Researcher 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 4%
Other 36 16%
Unknown 57 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 91 41%
Business, Management and Accounting 21 9%
Social Sciences 17 8%
Computer Science 5 2%
Design 4 2%
Other 19 9%
Unknown 65 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1291. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#12,739
of 34,364,397 outputs
Outputs from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#8
of 1,615 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49
of 243,308 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#1
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,364,397 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 1,615 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 69.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 21 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.