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The Limits of “The Male Sex Role”

Overview of attention for article published in Gender & Society, June 1998
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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 (99th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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4 news outlets
twitter
4 X users
wikipedia
40 Wikipedia pages
reddit
20 Redditors

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163 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Limits of “The Male Sex Role”
Published in
Gender & Society, June 1998
DOI 10.1177/0891243298012003002
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Indonesia 2 1%
Germany 2 1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 155 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 18%
Student > Master 23 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Researcher 11 7%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 45 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 74 45%
Psychology 17 10%
Arts and Humanities 11 7%
Linguistics 4 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 45 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 23 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,183,685
of 33,192,001 outputs
Outputs from Gender & Society
#141
of 1,077 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#439
of 46,664 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Gender & Society
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,192,001 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 1,077 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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