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Working Memory Capacity but Not Prior Knowledge Impact on Readers' Attention and Text Comprehension

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Education, March 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (76th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
reddit
4 Redditors

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58 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Working Memory Capacity but Not Prior Knowledge Impact on Readers' Attention and Text Comprehension
Published in
Frontiers in Education, March 2020
DOI 10.3389/feduc.2020.00026
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Master 5 9%
Other 3 5%
Lecturer 3 5%
Professor 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 31 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 17%
Linguistics 5 9%
Neuroscience 4 7%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 34 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 18 March 2025.
All research outputs
#5,671,974
of 32,900,686 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Education
#503
of 6,153 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,850
of 416,391 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Education
#6
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,900,686 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,153 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 416,391 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 76% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.