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‘You can do it from your sofa’: The increasing popularity of the internet as a working site among male sex workers in Melbourne

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Sociology, March 2013
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Citations

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Title
‘You can do it from your sofa’: The increasing popularity of the internet as a working site among male sex workers in Melbourne
Published in
Journal of Sociology, March 2013
DOI 10.1177/1440783313480416
Authors

Andrew McLean

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 13 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 31%
Psychology 11 20%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Engineering 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 15 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 May 2021.
All research outputs
#6,652,652
of 24,739,153 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Sociology
#261
of 682 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,081
of 199,871 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Sociology
#4
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,739,153 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 682 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.