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Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sociology, January 2020
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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 (82nd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (54th percentile)

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Title
Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory
Published in
British Journal of Sociology, January 2020
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.12727
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sarah Kingston, Nicola Smith

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 11%
Student > Master 8 11%
Other 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 5%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 27 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 12%
Psychology 8 11%
Arts and Humanities 5 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 28 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 March 2020.
All research outputs
#3,474,809
of 24,833,726 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Sociology
#320
of 1,116 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#79,684
of 469,199 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Sociology
#11
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,833,726 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,116 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 469,199 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 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 22 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 54% of its contemporaries.