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‘Best friends forever’? Friendship stability across school transition and associations with mental health and educational attainment

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Educational Psychology, September 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 (#10 of 1,126)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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news
19 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
7 X users

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174 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘Best friends forever’? Friendship stability across school transition and associations with mental health and educational attainment
Published in
British Journal of Educational Psychology, September 2018
DOI 10.1111/bjep.12246
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 174 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 9%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Researcher 11 6%
Other 13 7%
Unknown 88 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 27 16%
Social Sciences 24 14%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Other 16 9%
Unknown 97 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 161. 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 11 January 2026.
All research outputs
#315,670
of 34,277,148 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Educational Psychology
#10
of 1,126 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,214
of 382,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Educational Psychology
#2
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,277,148 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 1,126 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. 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 382,982 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 98% of its contemporaries.
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 well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.