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How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, January 2013
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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
91 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
twitter
173 X users
facebook
25 Facebook pages
googleplus
8 Google+ users
reddit
2 Redditors
video
7 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
595 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Title
How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation
Published in
PLOS ONE, January 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0055341
Pubmed ID
Authors

P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 595 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 579 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 99 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 16%
Student > Master 78 13%
Researcher 46 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 35 6%
Other 104 17%
Unknown 140 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 169 28%
Social Sciences 76 13%
Arts and Humanities 66 11%
Linguistics 18 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 3%
Other 96 16%
Unknown 153 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 953. 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 23 April 2024.
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#17,863
of 25,859,234 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#267
of 225,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#70
of 292,643 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#7
of 5,027 outputs
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