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How many hours does it take to make a friend?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 2,121)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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Article details
Title
How many hours does it take to make a friend?
Published in
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2018
DOI 10.1177/0265407518761225
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 228 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 228 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 32 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 13%
Student > Master 16 7%
Other 11 5%
Researcher 10 4%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 103 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 47 21%
Social Sciences 20 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Neuroscience 6 3%
Other 32 14%
Unknown 107 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2503. 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 24 September 2026.
All research outputs
#3,518
of 34,407,356 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#1
of 2,121 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35
of 380,384 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#1
of 40 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,407,356 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,121 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 380,384 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 40 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.