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Answering research questions without calculating the mean

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
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Title
Answering research questions without calculating the mean
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01379
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
Sweden 1 5%
Germany 1 5%
Unknown 19 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 27%
Professor 3 14%
Researcher 3 14%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Other 4 18%
Unknown 2 9%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 7 32%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 9%
Linguistics 2 9%
Social Sciences 2 9%
Neuroscience 2 9%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 4 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 January 2017.
All research outputs
#17,271,592
of 29,418,433 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#14,083
of 38,750 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#139,254
of 284,904 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#230
of 551 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,418,433 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 38,750 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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