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The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work

Overview of attention for article published in Memory & Cognition, December 2006
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 1,657)
  • 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
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
89 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
video
2 YouTube creators

Citations

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50 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
137 Mendeley
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Title
The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work
Published in
Memory & Cognition, December 2006
DOI 10.3758/bf03195929
Pubmed ID
Authors

Rebecca Lawson

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 89 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 137 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 5%
Brazil 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Unknown 126 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 31%
Researcher 17 12%
Student > Master 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Other 8 6%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 21 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 33%
Social Sciences 12 9%
Computer Science 11 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 4%
Other 31 23%
Unknown 24 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 106. 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 07 October 2023.
All research outputs
#401,279
of 25,546,214 outputs
Outputs from Memory & Cognition
#27
of 1,657 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#792
of 168,712 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Memory & Cognition
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,546,214 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,657 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.