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Occam's Rattle: Children's Use of Simplicity and Probability to Constrain Inference

Overview of attention for article published in Developmental Psychology, January 2012
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Article details
Title
Occam's Rattle: Children's Use of Simplicity and Probability to Constrain Inference
Published in
Developmental Psychology, January 2012
DOI 10.1037/a0026471
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Unknown 92 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 32%
Student > Master 18 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 9%
Researcher 9 9%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 8 8%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 61 64%
Social Sciences 5 5%
Philosophy 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 12 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 14 March 2017.
All research outputs
#8,648,903
of 29,133,090 outputs
Outputs from Developmental Psychology
#1,395
of 4,692 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#68,174
of 265,725 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Developmental Psychology
#32
of 102 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,133,090 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,692 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 102 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its contemporaries.