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The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of Involuntarily Celibate Men

Overview of attention for article published in Men and Masculinities, May 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 532)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
19 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
30 X users
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
reddit
43 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
5 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
152 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of Involuntarily Celibate Men
Published in
Men and Masculinities, May 2021
DOI 10.1177/1097184x211017954
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 152 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 7%
Student > Master 9 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Researcher 5 3%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 101 66%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 14%
Psychology 10 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 5%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 1%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 102 67%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 208. 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 29 September 2026.
All research outputs
#236,311
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Men and Masculinities
#11
of 532 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,451
of 485,918 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Men and Masculinities
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 532 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 485,918 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 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them