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Rat boredom-like behaviour in a monotonous versus a varied foraging task: effects of sensory variation

Overview of attention for article published in Animal Cognition, July 2025
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Rat boredom-like behaviour in a monotonous versus a varied foraging task: effects of sensory variation
Published in
Animal Cognition, July 2025
DOI 10.1007/s10071-025-01979-6
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Mendeley demographics

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 8 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 50%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 13%
Student > Bachelor 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 25%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 13%
Psychology 1 13%
Neuroscience 1 13%
Unknown 3 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 02 August 2026.
All research outputs
#2,981,969
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Animal Cognition
#528
of 1,724 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,502
of 352,926 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animal Cognition
#9
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,842 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,724 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% 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 352,926 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 23 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its contemporaries.