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The folk psychology of souls

Overview of attention for article published in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, December 2006
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
reddit
1 Redditor

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508 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The folk psychology of souls
Published in
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, December 2006
DOI 10.1017/s0140525x06009101
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 508 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 22 4%
United Kingdom 12 2%
Canada 5 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Other 11 2%
Unknown 445 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 102 20%
Researcher 74 15%
Student > Bachelor 61 12%
Student > Master 55 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 6%
Other 134 26%
Unknown 52 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 203 40%
Social Sciences 51 10%
Philosophy 37 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 32 6%
Arts and Humanities 31 6%
Other 85 17%
Unknown 69 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 29 December 2023.
All research outputs
#3,456,436
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from Behavioral & Brain Sciences
#340
of 2,392 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,094
of 228,857 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Behavioral & Brain Sciences
#4
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,257 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,392 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 228,857 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 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.