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What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it?

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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2 blogs
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9 X users
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1 Redditor
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2 Q&A threads

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Title
What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it?
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00433
Pubmed ID
Authors

Oliver Wilhelm, Andrea Hildebrandt, Klaus Oberauer

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 817 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 175 21%
Student > Master 123 15%
Student > Bachelor 108 13%
Researcher 103 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 70 8%
Other 116 14%
Unknown 147 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 358 43%
Neuroscience 81 10%
Linguistics 39 5%
Social Sciences 30 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 27 3%
Other 133 16%
Unknown 174 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 July 2022.
All research outputs
#1,672,213
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#3,450
of 34,796 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,734
of 295,070 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#162
of 967 outputs
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