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The perceived psychological distance of climate change impacts and its influence on support for adaptation policy

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science & Policy, July 2017
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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376 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The perceived psychological distance of climate change impacts and its influence on support for adaptation policy
Published in
Environmental Science & Policy, July 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.04.011
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 375 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 65 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 60 16%
Student > Bachelor 39 10%
Researcher 36 10%
Other 14 4%
Other 61 16%
Unknown 101 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 60 16%
Environmental Science 59 16%
Psychology 51 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 14 4%
Other 51 14%
Unknown 120 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#940,312
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science & Policy
#114
of 3,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,489
of 360,866 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science & Policy
#1
of 36 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 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,222 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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