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Pedestrians distracted by their smartphone: Are in-ground flashing lights catching their attention? A laboratory study

Overview of attention for article published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, November 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
reddit
1 Redditor

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135 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Pedestrians distracted by their smartphone: Are in-ground flashing lights catching their attention? A laboratory study
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention, November 2019
DOI 10.1016/j.aap.2019.105346
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 135 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 135 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 11%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 11 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 8%
Other 7 5%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 60 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 31 23%
Psychology 13 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 62 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 17 October 2025.
All research outputs
#4,169,838
of 31,782,237 outputs
Outputs from Accident Analysis & Prevention
#751
of 3,712 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#67,796
of 400,532 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Accident Analysis & Prevention
#8
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,782,237 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,712 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 400,532 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 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 73% of its contemporaries.