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When Is an Unusual Sexual Interest a Mental Disorder?

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 2008
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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 (81st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

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1 policy source
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1 X user
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13 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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69 Dimensions

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Title
When Is an Unusual Sexual Interest a Mental Disorder?
Published in
Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 2008
DOI 10.1007/s10508-008-9436-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

Charles Moser

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Sweden 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 85 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 19%
Student > Bachelor 17 19%
Researcher 12 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Other 7 8%
Other 16 18%
Unknown 12 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 54 59%
Social Sciences 8 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 13 14%
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 30 March 2024.
All research outputs
#4,688,171
of 23,476,369 outputs
Outputs from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#1,584
of 3,497 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,085
of 92,412 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#10
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,476,369 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 3,497 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 21 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 52% of its contemporaries.