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Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification

Overview of attention for article published in Sexuality & Culture, September 2001
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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 (83rd percentile)

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Title
Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification
Published in
Sexuality & Culture, September 2001
DOI 10.1007/s12119-001-1031-2
Authors

Martha McCaughey, Christina French

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 5%
Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1 3%
Unknown 37 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 20%
Student > Bachelor 6 15%
Student > Master 4 10%
Researcher 3 8%
Professor 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 25%
Psychology 8 20%
Arts and Humanities 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 14 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 12 August 2023.
All research outputs
#5,279,598
of 25,339,932 outputs
Outputs from Sexuality & Culture
#210
of 673 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,894
of 40,602 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sexuality & Culture
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 25,339,932 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 673 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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