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AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Consumer Research, June 2025
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 1,733)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
32 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
11 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
9 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
4 Bluesky users
podcasts
2 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
383 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
Published in
Journal of Consumer Research, June 2025
DOI 10.1093/jcr/ucaf040
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 383 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 9%
Researcher 22 6%
Unspecified 19 5%
Student > Master 14 4%
Lecturer 11 3%
Other 37 10%
Unknown 246 64%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 37 10%
Psychology 22 6%
Unspecified 21 5%
Social Sciences 20 5%
Computer Science 6 2%
Other 27 7%
Unknown 250 65%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 328. 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 05 October 2026.
All research outputs
#129,174
of 34,541,249 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Consumer Research
#36
of 1,733 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,546
of 360,211 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Consumer Research
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,541,249 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 1,733 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 42.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 360,211 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 15 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.