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Does this “he or she” business really make a difference? The effect of masculine pronouns as generics on job attitudes

Overview of attention for article published in Sex Roles, June 1981
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Title
Does this “he or she” business really make a difference? The effect of masculine pronouns as generics on job attitudes
Published in
Sex Roles, June 1981
DOI 10.1007/bf00291751
Authors

Anne Stericker

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 29%
Researcher 1 14%
Unknown 4 57%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 1 14%
Linguistics 1 14%
Social Sciences 1 14%
Unknown 4 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 31 July 2018.
All research outputs
#6,403,199
of 22,747,498 outputs
Outputs from Sex Roles
#969
of 2,259 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,698
of 7,103 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sex Roles
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,747,498 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,259 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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