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What Makes Life Meaningful for Theists and Atheists?

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology of religion and spirituality, February 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#45 of 384)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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1 X user

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38 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
What Makes Life Meaningful for Theists and Atheists?
Published in
Psychology of religion and spirituality, February 2021
DOI 10.1037/rel0000282
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 6 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 13%
Lecturer 4 11%
Student > Master 4 11%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 10 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 58%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 9 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 28 August 2022.
All research outputs
#2,103,973
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from Psychology of religion and spirituality
#45
of 384 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,177
of 573,219 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology of religion and spirituality
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 384 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 573,219 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.