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Happy Hookers: findings from an international study exploring the effects of crochet on wellbeing

Overview of attention for article published in Perspectives in Public Health, April 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 700)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
79 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
14 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
19 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
11 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
168 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Happy Hookers: findings from an international study exploring the effects of crochet on wellbeing
Published in
Perspectives in Public Health, April 2020
DOI 10.1177/1757913920911961
Pubmed ID
Authors

P Burns, R Van Der Meer

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 168 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Student > Master 10 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 5%
Researcher 7 4%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 108 64%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 6%
Social Sciences 9 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 5%
Psychology 6 4%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 112 67%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 665. 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 24 October 2026.
All research outputs
#40,870
of 34,637,917 outputs
Outputs from Perspectives in Public Health
#2
of 700 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,410
of 428,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perspectives in Public Health
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,637,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 700 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 428,296 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them