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Healthy habits: efficacy of simple advice on weight control based on a habit-formation model

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Obesity, December 2007
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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 (97th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
guideline
1 clinical guideline source

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mendeley
334 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Healthy habits: efficacy of simple advice on weight control based on a habit-formation model
Published in
International Journal of Obesity, December 2007
DOI 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803771
Pubmed ID
Authors

P Lally, A Chipperfield, J Wardle

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 324 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 16%
Student > Master 48 14%
Researcher 47 14%
Student > Bachelor 43 13%
Other 26 8%
Other 63 19%
Unknown 55 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 90 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 50 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 6%
Sports and Recreations 18 5%
Other 62 19%
Unknown 75 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 11 December 2025.
All research outputs
#1,480,691
of 29,836,687 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Obesity
#729
of 5,254 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,200
of 191,479 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Obesity
#9
of 24 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,836,687 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,254 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 24 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 62% of its contemporaries.