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The Aha! Moment

Overview of attention for article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, August 2009
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
6 X users
patent
1 patent
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Readers on

mendeley
628 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Aha! Moment
Published in
Current Directions in Psychological Science, August 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01638.x
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 24 4%
United Kingdom 10 2%
Germany 5 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Russia 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Other 19 3%
Unknown 556 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 132 21%
Student > Master 93 15%
Researcher 83 13%
Student > Bachelor 58 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 34 5%
Other 122 19%
Unknown 106 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 231 37%
Social Sciences 44 7%
Neuroscience 37 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 32 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 4%
Other 124 20%
Unknown 132 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 85. 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 31 March 2026.
All research outputs
#637,308
of 34,583,980 outputs
Outputs from Current Directions in Psychological Science
#232
of 1,686 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,576
of 173,899 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Directions in Psychological Science
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,583,980 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,686 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 55.1. 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 11 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 90% of its contemporaries.