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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
37 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
4 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

Readers on

mendeley
266 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Comment on “Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior”
Published in
Science, March 2021
DOI 10.1126/science.aba2941
Pubmed ID
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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 266 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 266 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 17%
Researcher 41 15%
Student > Bachelor 32 12%
Student > Master 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 6%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 74 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 9%
Psychology 24 9%
Neuroscience 11 4%
Other 46 17%
Unknown 80 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 21 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,088,438
of 34,601,305 outputs
Outputs from Science
#19,586
of 94,214 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,139
of 481,814 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#335
of 985 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,305 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 94,214 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 481,814 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 985 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 65% of its contemporaries.