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Optimism

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Psychology Review, February 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 1,894)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
74 news outlets
blogs
6 blogs
policy
8 policy sources
twitter
7 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
10 Redditors
video
3 YouTube creators
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
2038 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Optimism
Published in
Clinical Psychology Review, February 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.cpr.2010.01.006
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,038 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 10 <1%
United States 7 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Norway 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 1996 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 295 14%
Student > Master 294 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 255 13%
Researcher 122 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 100 5%
Other 276 14%
Unknown 696 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 782 38%
Social Sciences 111 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 101 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 62 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 2%
Other 182 9%
Unknown 767 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 667. 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 27 August 2026.
All research outputs
#40,337
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Psychology Review
#10
of 1,894 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#81
of 232,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Psychology Review
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 1,894 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.