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Exploring Viewers' Experiences of Parasocial Interactions with Videogame Streamers on Twitch

Overview of attention for article published in CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, February 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
13 news outlets
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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111 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Exploring Viewers' Experiences of Parasocial Interactions with Videogame Streamers on Twitch
Published in
CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, February 2021
DOI 10.1089/cyber.2020.0546
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 111 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Unspecified 5 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Student > Master 5 5%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 68 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 14%
Unspecified 5 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Psychology 5 5%
Sports and Recreations 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 71 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 107. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#499,984
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking
#97
of 1,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,557
of 573,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking
#4
of 24 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,578 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 573,768 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 24 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.