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Goal setting in youth sport: are we unintentionally contributing to dropout?

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, September 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 (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Goal setting in youth sport: are we unintentionally contributing to dropout?
Published in
British Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2025
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2025-110061
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 5 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 20%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 1 20%
Sports and Recreations 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 October 2025.
All research outputs
#3,878,344
of 32,455,452 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#3,613
of 7,223 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,702
of 336,217 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#25
of 54 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,455,452 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,223 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 69.0. This one is in the 49th percentile – i.e., 49% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 336,217 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 54 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 53% of its contemporaries.