Four IoPPN research articles in Altmetric Top 100

Four research articles authored by academics from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have been named in Altmetric’s Top 100, an annual list of the studies that have received the most attention online in the last 12 months.

Altmetric tracks and analyses online activity around scholarly literature, including media coverage, shares and comments on blogs and social media mentions.

The 2015 list features papers published in 34 different journals, with contributions from nearly 2,000 authors.

The highest ranked paper from the IoPPN was ‘Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science’, co-authored by Dr John Hodsoll from the Biostatistics Department and published in Science. The article, ranked fifth in the Top 100, was the subject of 74 news stories, 1,975 tweets and 42 Facebook posts.

Three other articles authored by IoPPN researchers were also listed, including:

• Number 46 - ‘Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15 521 men’, published in British Journal of Urology
  
  Dr David Veale from the Department of Psychology
  
  
• Number 95 - ‘Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy compared with maintenance antidepressant treatment in the prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (PREVENT): a randomised controlled trial’, published in The Lancet
  
  Professor Sarah Byford and Dr Barbara Barrett from the Health Services & Population Research Department
  
  
• Number 96 - ‘Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity', published in Nature Neuroscience
  
  Robert Power from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre

Euan Adie, founder of Altmetric, said: ‘Altmetric tracks what people are saying about academic research online to provide additional insights to publishers, authors, libraries and institutions. The annual top 100 ranking is determined by the volume of coverage each article has received in the mainstream media, as well as shares and comments on blogs, Wikipedia, social media platforms (including Twitter, Reddit and Facebook), and in scholarly spaces such as post­publication peer­review forums.’

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