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A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Management, March 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 1,689)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
45 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work
Published in
Journal of Management, March 2016
DOI 10.1177/0149206316632058
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 2436 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 296 12%
Student > Master 289 12%
Student > Bachelor 171 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 138 6%
Lecturer 102 4%
Other 347 14%
Unknown 1105 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 448 18%
Business, Management and Accounting 393 16%
Social Sciences 145 6%
Unspecified 44 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 41 2%
Other 229 9%
Unknown 1148 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 174. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#291,777
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Management
#37
of 1,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,034
of 337,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Management
#2
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 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 1,689 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 29 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 93% of its contemporaries.