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Lay perspectives on the social and psychological functions of heroes

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, February 2015
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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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

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19 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
17 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages

Citations

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79 Mendeley
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Title
Lay perspectives on the social and psychological functions of heroes
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, February 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00130
Pubmed ID
Authors

Elaine L. Kinsella, Timothy D. Ritchie, Eric R. Igou

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 77 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Bachelor 12 15%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 20 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 31 39%
Social Sciences 7 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 22 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 172. 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 21 April 2024.
All research outputs
#240,305
of 25,758,695 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#508
of 34,777 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,579
of 269,818 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#15
of 437 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 34,777 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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