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The Myth of the ‘Puck Bunny’

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology, July 2004
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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 (97th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

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45 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Myth of the ‘Puck Bunny’
Published in
Sociology, July 2004
DOI 10.1177/0038038504043214
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 18%
Student > Bachelor 6 13%
Student > Master 4 9%
Researcher 3 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 13 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 24%
Sports and Recreations 7 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 13%
Arts and Humanities 3 7%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 12 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 22 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,488,562
of 34,386,255 outputs
Outputs from Sociology
#170
of 1,707 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,824
of 84,916 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,386,255 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,707 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 84,916 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 2 of them.