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Friendship paradox biases perceptions in directed networks

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, February 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
58 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
70 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
81 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Friendship paradox biases perceptions in directed networks
Published in
Nature Communications, February 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-14394-x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 23%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Other 5 6%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 20 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 16 20%
Psychology 8 10%
Social Sciences 8 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 5%
Physics and Astronomy 3 4%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 28 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 515. 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 24 August 2026.
All research outputs
#62,401
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#1,014
of 82,560 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,416
of 514,956 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#12
of 1,440 outputs
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