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In the lab and in the wild: How distraction and mind wandering affect attention and memory

Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, November 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#48 of 365)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 X user

Citations

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Title
In the lab and in the wild: How distraction and mind wandering affect attention and memory
Published in
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, November 2018
DOI 10.1186/s41235-018-0137-0
Pubmed ID
Authors

Trish L. Varao-Sousa, Daniel Smilek, Alan Kingstone

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 16%
Researcher 7 10%
Professor 4 5%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 20 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 33 45%
Neuroscience 5 7%
Engineering 4 5%
Computer Science 3 4%
Unspecified 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 21 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 24 August 2023.
All research outputs
#798,522
of 25,339,932 outputs
Outputs from Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
#48
of 365 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,919
of 451,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
#4
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,339,932 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 365 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.