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Ever-present threats from information technology: the Cyber-Paranoia and Fear Scale

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, November 2014
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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1 blog
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Article details
Title
Ever-present threats from information technology: the Cyber-Paranoia and Fear Scale
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, November 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01298
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Authors

Oliver J Mason, Caroline Stevenson, Fleur Freedman

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 99 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Researcher 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Student > Master 7 7%
Other 20 20%
Unknown 34 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 22%
Social Sciences 12 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Computer Science 6 6%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 33 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 23 April 2025.
All research outputs
#999,597
of 33,503,639 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#2,236
of 43,256 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,539
of 420,011 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#27
of 358 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,503,639 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 43,256 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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