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How people decide what they want to know

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Human Behaviour, January 2020
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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 (87th percentile)

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Title
How people decide what they want to know
Published in
Nature Human Behaviour, January 2020
DOI 10.1038/s41562-019-0793-1
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Authors

Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 496 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 90 18%
Student > Master 76 15%
Researcher 51 10%
Student > Bachelor 34 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 5%
Other 75 15%
Unknown 145 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 92 19%
Social Sciences 42 8%
Neuroscience 40 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 4%
Other 109 22%
Unknown 173 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 350. 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 20 August 2023.
All research outputs
#94,765
of 25,844,183 outputs
Outputs from Nature Human Behaviour
#194
of 1,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,172
of 480,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Human Behaviour
#6
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,844,183 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 1,751 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 159.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 480,425 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 49 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.