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The psychology of the near miss

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Gambling Studies, March 1986
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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196 Dimensions

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140 Mendeley
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Title
The psychology of the near miss
Published in
Journal of Gambling Studies, March 1986
DOI 10.1007/bf01019932
Authors

R. L. Reid

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 140 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 137 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 16%
Student > Bachelor 18 13%
Researcher 16 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 29 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 48 34%
Neuroscience 12 9%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Computer Science 5 4%
Other 24 17%
Unknown 37 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 05 March 2024.
All research outputs
#1,553,582
of 25,413,176 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Gambling Studies
#89
of 992 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#143
of 10,064 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Gambling Studies
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,413,176 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 992 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 10,064 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them