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Appearance DOES Matter

Overview of attention for article published in Science, June 2005
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
5 X users

Readers on

mendeley
87 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Appearance DOES Matter
Published in
Science, June 2005
DOI 10.1126/science.1114170
Pubmed ID
Authors

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 87 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Turkey 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
China 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 80 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 20%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Master 10 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 19 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 33 38%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 22 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 14 September 2016.
All research outputs
#1,776,137
of 28,841,988 outputs
Outputs from Science
#26,410
of 87,351 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,794
of 77,619 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#73
of 365 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,841,988 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 87,351 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% 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 77,619 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 365 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.