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Using masculine generics: Does generic he increase male bias in the user's imagery?

Overview of attention for article published in Sex Roles, December 1988
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
85 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
55 Mendeley
Title
Using masculine generics: Does generic he increase male bias in the user's imagery?
Published in
Sex Roles, December 1988
DOI 10.1007/bf00288993
Authors

Mykol C. Hamilton

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Student > Master 9 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 5%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 11 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 20 36%
Psychology 11 20%
Unspecified 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 12 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 09 January 2022.
All research outputs
#1,202,416
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Sex Roles
#351
of 2,424 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#375
of 54,785 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sex Roles
#1
of 3 outputs
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