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Dopamine-scrolling: a modern public health challenge requiring urgent attention

Overview of attention for article published in Perspectives in Public Health, April 2025
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 700)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
47 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
20 X users
reddit
13 Redditors
video
5 YouTube creators
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
132 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Dopamine-scrolling: a modern public health challenge requiring urgent attention
Published in
Perspectives in Public Health, April 2025
DOI 10.1177/17579139251331914
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 132 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 22 17%
Student > Bachelor 5 4%
Student > Master 5 4%
Lecturer 3 2%
Researcher 3 2%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 91 69%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 22 17%
Design 4 3%
Chemistry 2 2%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 <1%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 91 69%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 423. 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 22 October 2026.
All research outputs
#87,513
of 34,644,748 outputs
Outputs from Perspectives in Public Health
#5
of 700 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,244
of 362,526 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perspectives in Public Health
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,644,748 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 700 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 362,526 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them