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The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women

Overview of attention for article published in Sex Roles, March 2015
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
11 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
12 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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35 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
163 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
Title
The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women
Published in
Sex Roles, March 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11199-015-0455-3
Authors

Hillary Pennell, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 161 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 57 35%
Student > Master 20 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Postgraduate 6 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 36 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 21%
Arts and Humanities 33 20%
Psychology 25 15%
Unspecified 5 3%
Linguistics 4 2%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 40 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 113. 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 16 July 2022.
All research outputs
#331,435
of 23,655,067 outputs
Outputs from Sex Roles
#104
of 2,285 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,068
of 260,136 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sex Roles
#4
of 25 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,285 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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