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Thumb's Rule Tested: Visual Angle of Thumb's Width is about 2 Deg

Overview of attention for article published in Perception, June 1991
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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 (92nd percentile)

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4 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages
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1 Redditor
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Article details
Title
Thumb's Rule Tested: Visual Angle of Thumb's Width is about 2 Deg
Published in
Perception, June 1991
DOI 10.1068/p200415
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 42 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 27%
Researcher 11 24%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Professor 3 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 7 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 18%
Neuroscience 6 13%
Computer Science 5 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 13 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 12 April 2024.
All research outputs
#3,870,864
of 33,111,107 outputs
Outputs from Perception
#234
of 1,513 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,726
of 23,635 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perception
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,111,107 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,513 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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