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Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 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 (#3 of 2,119)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
143 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
74 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
30 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
3 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
666 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness
Published in
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 2019
DOI 10.1177/0265407519836170
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 666 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 59 9%
Student > Master 55 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 6%
Lecturer 26 4%
Other 16 2%
Other 86 13%
Unknown 383 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 84 13%
Social Sciences 48 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 26 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 3%
Other 76 11%
Unknown 390 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1247. 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 22 September 2026.
All research outputs
#13,567
of 34,337,681 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#3
of 2,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#226
of 390,729 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
#1
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,337,681 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 2,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 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 96% of its contemporaries.