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Loneliness, Mental Health, and Substance Use among US Young Adults during COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, October 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 (#7 of 1,298)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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46 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
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25 X users
reddit
4 Redditors

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700 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Loneliness, Mental Health, and Substance Use among US Young Adults during COVID-19
Published in
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, October 2020
DOI 10.1080/02791072.2020.1836435
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 700 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 70 10%
Student > Master 55 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 7%
Researcher 47 7%
Lecturer 21 3%
Other 85 12%
Unknown 371 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 93 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 60 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 42 6%
Social Sciences 29 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 2%
Other 81 12%
Unknown 384 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 391. 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 29 June 2025.
All research outputs
#98,165
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
#7
of 1,298 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,397
of 473,333 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
#1
of 15 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 1,298 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.2. 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 473,333 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 15 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 93% of its contemporaries.