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What Is Empathy, and Can Empathy Be Taught?

Overview of attention for article published in Physical Therapy, November 1990
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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 (80th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
17 X users
reddit
13 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

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181 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What Is Empathy, and Can Empathy Be Taught?
Published in
Physical Therapy, November 1990
DOI 10.1093/ptj/70.11.707
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 177 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 27 15%
Student > Master 23 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Lecturer 11 6%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 61 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 20%
Psychology 21 12%
Social Sciences 14 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 5%
Other 26 14%
Unknown 65 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. 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 15 May 2025.
All research outputs
#699,844
of 34,516,729 outputs
Outputs from Physical Therapy
#78
of 3,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#87
of 23,512 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Physical Therapy
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,516,729 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 3,451 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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