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Eating Motives and the Controversy over Dieting: Eating Less Than Needed versus Less Than Wanted

Overview of attention for article published in Obesity Research, September 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 (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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1 YouTube creator

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Article details
Title
Eating Motives and the Controversy over Dieting: Eating Less Than Needed versus Less Than Wanted
Published in
Obesity Research, September 2012
DOI 10.1038/oby.2005.90
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 264 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 18%
Student > Bachelor 37 14%
Researcher 33 12%
Student > Master 31 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 49 18%
Unknown 53 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 89 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 7%
Social Sciences 13 5%
Other 35 13%
Unknown 65 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 28 January 2023.
All research outputs
#3,639,238
of 27,781,301 outputs
Outputs from Obesity Research
#110
of 390 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,443
of 193,340 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Obesity Research
#105
of 455 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,781,301 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 390 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 193,340 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 455 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.