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Will using the Internet to answer knowledge questions increase users’ overestimation of their own ability or performance?

Overview of attention for article published in Media Psychology, September 2019
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Title
Will using the Internet to answer knowledge questions increase users’ overestimation of their own ability or performance?
Published in
Media Psychology, September 2019
DOI 10.1080/15213269.2019.1668810
Authors

Stephanie Pieschl

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Student > Bachelor 3 12%
Other 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 10 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 5 19%
Arts and Humanities 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 11 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 September 2019.
All research outputs
#6,937,680
of 24,456,171 outputs
Outputs from Media Psychology
#239
of 416 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#118,970
of 350,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media Psychology
#10
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,456,171 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 416 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.2. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 25th percentile – i.e., 25% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.