↓ Skip to main content

The Disjointed Historical Trajectory of Anorexia Nervosa Before 1970

Overview of attention for article published in Current Psychiatry Reports, January 2016
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (61st percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
3 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
5 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
46 Mendeley
Title
The Disjointed Historical Trajectory of Anorexia Nervosa Before 1970
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11920-015-0641-6
Pubmed ID
Authors

John P. M. Court, Allan S. Kaplan

Abstract

Responses in pre-modern eras to anorexia nervosa (as now understood) varied widely, from religious piety and sanctity through fear and superstition. While noting briefly the limited conceptualizations from pre-modern history this article is primarily focused from the late 19th century, commencing with helpful but tentative formulations of anorexia nervosa for early-modern medicine that were laid out, consistently between themselves, by Lesègue, Gull and Osler. Yet that promising biomedical advent was superseded for more than a half-century by deep, internal divisions and bitter rifts that festered between three medical disciplines: neurology; Freudian psychotherapy; and Kraepelinian biological psychiatry. Mid-20th century developments preceded the 1960-1980s' improved understanding of suffering and movement toward effective remediation introduced by Dr. Hilde Bruch.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 46 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 45 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 13%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 4%
Professor 2 4%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 15 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 24%
Psychology 9 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 16 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 04 October 2019.
All research outputs
#2,823,557
of 22,840,638 outputs
Outputs from Current Psychiatry Reports
#314
of 1,190 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,143
of 395,720 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Psychiatry Reports
#14
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,840,638 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,190 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 395,720 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.