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Is Sex Good for Your Health? A National Study on Partnered Sexuality and Cardiovascular Risk among Older Men and Women

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, September 2016
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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 1,192)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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news
145 news outlets
blogs
11 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
76 X users
facebook
8 Facebook pages
reddit
44 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
162 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is Sex Good for Your Health? A National Study on Partnered Sexuality and Cardiovascular Risk among Older Men and Women
Published in
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, September 2016
DOI 10.1177/0022146516661597
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 161 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 9%
Researcher 15 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 8%
Student > Master 11 7%
Other 10 6%
Other 29 18%
Unknown 69 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 10%
Psychology 12 7%
Social Sciences 12 7%
Computer Science 5 3%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 71 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1254. 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 26 September 2026.
All research outputs
#13,451
of 34,408,222 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Health and Social Behavior
#2
of 1,192 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#165
of 336,750 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Health and Social Behavior
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,408,222 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 1,192 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.7. 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 336,750 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 8 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