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“Only Girls Who Want Fat Legs Take the Elevator”: Body Image in Single-Sex and Mixed-Sex Colleges

Overview of attention for article published in Sex Roles, July 2012
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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Citations

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52 Mendeley
Title
“Only Girls Who Want Fat Legs Take the Elevator”: Body Image in Single-Sex and Mixed-Sex Colleges
Published in
Sex Roles, July 2012
DOI 10.1007/s11199-012-0189-4
Authors

Bettina Spencer, Caitilin Barrett, Gina Storti, Mara Cole

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 4%
Korea, Republic of 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 48 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 25%
Professor 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 12%
Researcher 5 10%
Student > Master 3 6%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 12 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 23 44%
Social Sciences 4 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 6%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 11 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 26 August 2016.
All research outputs
#6,694,249
of 22,671,366 outputs
Outputs from Sex Roles
#1,036
of 2,257 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,814
of 163,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sex Roles
#11
of 31 outputs
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