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Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year

Overview of attention for article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2026
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 1,375)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
117 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
57 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
reddit
7 Redditors
bluesky
60 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
7 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year
Published in
Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2026
DOI 10.1177/17456916261425131
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 29%
Unspecified 1 14%
Professor 1 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 14%
Unknown 2 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 29%
Arts and Humanities 1 14%
Unspecified 1 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 14%
Unknown 2 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 996. 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 30 September 2026.
All research outputs
#20,542
of 34,518,784 outputs
Outputs from Perspectives on Psychological Science
#8
of 1,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#159
of 357,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perspectives on Psychological Science
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,518,784 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 1,375 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 75.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 357,524 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 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them