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Autism Spectrum Disorders Discourse on Social Media Platforms: A Topic Modeling Study of Reddit Posts

Overview of attention for article published in Autism Research, June 2025
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
6 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
5 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
39 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Autism Spectrum Disorders Discourse on Social Media Platforms: A Topic Modeling Study of Reddit Posts
Published in
Autism Research, June 2025
DOI 10.1002/aur.70066
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Unspecified 2 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 3%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 26 67%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 3 8%
Unspecified 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 28 72%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 16 September 2025.
All research outputs
#868,249
of 32,409,613 outputs
Outputs from Autism Research
#142
of 2,050 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,917
of 345,528 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Autism Research
#2
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,409,613 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,050 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 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 93% of its contemporaries.