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Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical Faculty

Overview of attention for article published in Discourse & Society, March 2003
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 501)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
14 news outlets
blogs
11 blogs
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
36 X users
reddit
4 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
294 Mendeley
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1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical Faculty
Published in
Discourse & Society, March 2003
DOI 10.1177/0957926503014002277
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 15 5%
Japan 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 270 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 15%
Researcher 36 12%
Student > Master 28 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 28 10%
Other 25 9%
Other 80 27%
Unknown 53 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 43 15%
Social Sciences 42 14%
Psychology 33 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 4%
Other 81 28%
Unknown 57 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 218. 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 02 September 2026.
All research outputs
#220,609
of 34,271,801 outputs
Outputs from Discourse & Society
#2
of 501 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#163
of 89,557 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Discourse & Society
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,271,801 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 501 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 89,557 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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