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Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, October 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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
143 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
42 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
24 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
97 Mendeley
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Title
Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not
Published in
PLOS ONE, October 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0257728
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kathryn Buchanan, Lara B. Aknin, Shaaba Lotun, Gillian M. Sandstrom

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 42 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 97 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 97 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 15%
Student > Master 9 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 8%
Professor 5 5%
Researcher 4 4%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 48 49%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 11%
Social Sciences 8 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 52 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1164. 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 14 November 2023.
All research outputs
#11,818
of 24,698,221 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#158
of 213,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#400
of 427,443 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#3
of 2,359 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,698,221 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 213,704 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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