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A large-scale experiment on New Year’s resolutions: Approach-oriented goals are more successful than avoidance-oriented goals

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, December 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#42 of 228,268)
  • 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
273 news outlets
blogs
18 blogs
twitter
95 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
video
11 YouTube creators

Citations

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9 Dimensions

Readers on

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79 Mendeley
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Title
A large-scale experiment on New Year’s resolutions: Approach-oriented goals are more successful than avoidance-oriented goals
Published in
PLOS ONE, December 2020
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0234097
Pubmed ID
Authors

Martin Oscarsson, Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson, Alexander Rozental

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 14%
Other 9 11%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Lecturer 6 8%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 27 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Sports and Recreations 7 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 29 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2254. 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 25 May 2024.
All research outputs
#3,837
of 26,151,587 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#42
of 228,268 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#201
of 532,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1
of 2,899 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 228,268 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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