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‘To be heard’: The social and mental health benefits of choir singing for disadvantaged adults

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology of Music, February 2012
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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 753)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
72 news outlets
twitter
9 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
318 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
‘To be heard’: The social and mental health benefits of choir singing for disadvantaged adults
Published in
Psychology of Music, February 2012
DOI 10.1177/0305735611430081
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 309 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 54 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 14%
Student > Bachelor 33 10%
Researcher 28 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 5%
Other 63 20%
Unknown 81 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 80 25%
Arts and Humanities 57 18%
Social Sciences 30 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 4%
Other 24 8%
Unknown 99 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 582. 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 19 September 2026.
All research outputs
#51,101
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from Psychology of Music
#3
of 753 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#173
of 306,594 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology of Music
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,257 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 753 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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