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Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, February 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
24 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
22 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
255 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Know Thy Avatar
Published in
Psychological Science, February 2014
DOI 10.1177/0956797613519271
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 2%
United States 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Israel 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 234 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 19%
Student > Master 36 14%
Student > Bachelor 34 13%
Researcher 28 11%
Professor 21 8%
Other 41 16%
Unknown 46 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 93 36%
Social Sciences 23 9%
Computer Science 23 9%
Engineering 11 4%
Arts and Humanities 9 4%
Other 33 13%
Unknown 63 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 213. 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 06 May 2025.
All research outputs
#222,752
of 32,776,013 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#454
of 4,539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,769
of 363,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#10
of 79 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,776,013 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 4,539 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 85.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 363,441 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 79 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.