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Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, January 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
8 blogs
twitter
2 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor
video
2 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
233 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh
Published in
Psychological Science, January 2011
DOI 10.1177/0956797610397058
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Germany 3 1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Qatar 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 218 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 21%
Student > Master 43 18%
Student > Bachelor 25 11%
Researcher 21 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 17 7%
Other 45 19%
Unknown 32 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 137 59%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 5%
Social Sciences 11 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Neuroscience 6 3%
Other 21 9%
Unknown 40 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 10 December 2024.
All research outputs
#940,984
of 32,041,085 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#1,443
of 4,503 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,023
of 239,663 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#19
of 60 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,041,085 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,503 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 84.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% 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 239,663 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 60 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 68% of its contemporaries.