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Needing to connect: The effect of self and others on young people's involvement with their mobile phones

Overview of attention for article published in Australian Journal of Psychology, November 2010
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3 Wikipedia pages

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324 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Needing to connect: The effect of self and others on young people's involvement with their mobile phones
Published in
Australian Journal of Psychology, November 2010
DOI 10.1080/00049530903567229
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 318 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 15%
Student > Master 43 13%
Student > Bachelor 42 13%
Researcher 26 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 8%
Other 60 19%
Unknown 79 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 89 27%
Social Sciences 37 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 5%
Engineering 12 4%
Other 45 14%
Unknown 100 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 27 June 2025.
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#6,419,960
of 22,811,321 outputs
Outputs from Australian Journal of Psychology
#145
of 326 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,474
of 100,459 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Australian Journal of Psychology
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,811,321 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 326 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.