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Dopamine, Prediction Error and Beyond

Overview of attention for article published in The Neuroscientist, April 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 833)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
8 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
207 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Dopamine, Prediction Error and Beyond
Published in
The Neuroscientist, April 2020
DOI 10.1177/1073858420907591
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 207 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 14%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Master 16 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 7%
Student > Bachelor 13 6%
Other 17 8%
Unknown 98 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 41 20%
Psychology 30 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 3%
Computer Science 5 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Other 19 9%
Unknown 102 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 28 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,046,992
of 33,233,926 outputs
Outputs from The Neuroscientist
#44
of 833 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,523
of 426,030 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Neuroscientist
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,233,926 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 833 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 426,030 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 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.