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Word Learning Emerges From the Interaction of Online Referent Selection and Slow Associative Learning

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Review, January 2012
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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 (86th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Word Learning Emerges From the Interaction of Online Referent Selection and Slow Associative Learning
Published in
Psychological Review, January 2012
DOI 10.1037/a0029872
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 2%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 300 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 79 25%
Researcher 42 13%
Student > Master 31 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 8%
Student > Bachelor 23 7%
Other 67 21%
Unknown 49 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 154 49%
Linguistics 30 10%
Social Sciences 16 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 3%
Neuroscience 11 3%
Other 27 9%
Unknown 66 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 2025.
All research outputs
#5,454,854
of 32,718,554 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Review
#543
of 1,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,795
of 295,049 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Review
#5
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,718,554 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,876 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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 73% of its contemporaries.