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Smells Like Safe Sex

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, February 2011
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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 (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
twitter
3 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
109 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Smells Like Safe Sex
Published in
Psychological Science, February 2011
DOI 10.1177/0956797611400096
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 4%
United States 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 97 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 25%
Student > Master 17 16%
Researcher 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Other 6 6%
Other 25 23%
Unknown 13 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 57 52%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 10%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 18 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. 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 2026.
All research outputs
#678,310
of 34,279,751 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#1,163
of 4,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,086
of 160,323 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#12
of 62 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,279,751 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,561 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 86.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 160,323 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 62 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.