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Believe It Or Not: Religious and Other Paranormal Beliefs in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, February 2003
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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 (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

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121 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Believe It Or Not: Religious and Other Paranormal Beliefs in the United States
Published in
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, February 2003
DOI 10.1111/1468-5906.00163
Authors

Tom W. Rice

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Japan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 117 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 13%
Researcher 16 13%
Student > Master 11 9%
Lecturer 7 6%
Other 25 21%
Unknown 25 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 49 40%
Social Sciences 17 14%
Arts and Humanities 8 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 26 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. 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 07 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,674,977
of 28,695,121 outputs
Outputs from Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
#97
of 1,035 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,124
of 156,809 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,695,121 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,035 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 156,809 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.