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‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming

Overview of attention for article published in Autism, February 2019
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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 2,476)
  • 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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news
33 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
347 X users
patent
1 patent
facebook
11 Facebook pages
wikipedia
22 Wikipedia pages
reddit
30 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
bluesky
17 Bluesky users
podcasts
3 podcasts

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mendeley
597 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘People should be allowed to do what they like’: Autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming
Published in
Autism, February 2019
DOI 10.1177/1362361319829628
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 597 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 67 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 10%
Student > Bachelor 60 10%
Researcher 35 6%
Student > Postgraduate 29 5%
Other 74 12%
Unknown 271 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 134 22%
Social Sciences 44 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 4%
Neuroscience 19 3%
Arts and Humanities 16 3%
Other 63 11%
Unknown 297 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 579. 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 14 September 2026.
All research outputs
#51,658
of 34,516,376 outputs
Outputs from Autism
#10
of 2,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#938
of 393,855 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Autism
#1
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,516,376 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 2,476 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 26.4. 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 393,855 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 34 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.