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Friendship: The Most Overlooked Public Health Asset

Overview of attention for article published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2025
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#29 of 314)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
11 news outlets
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
4 Bluesky users

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mendeley
4 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Friendship: The Most Overlooked Public Health Asset
Published in
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2025
DOI 10.1177/23727322251404386
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unknown 4 100%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Design 1 25%
Unknown 3 75%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. 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 25 September 2026.
All research outputs
#558,160
of 34,399,322 outputs
Outputs from Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
#29
of 314 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,325
of 381,492 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,399,322 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 314 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 381,492 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.