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Are old males still good males and can females tell the difference?

Overview of attention for article published in BioEssays, May 2012
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Are old males still good males and can females tell the difference?
Published in
BioEssays, May 2012
DOI 10.1002/bies.201100157
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 72 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 25%
Researcher 12 16%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 15 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 53%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 7%
Psychology 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 15 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 20 February 2024.
All research outputs
#830,501
of 25,382,035 outputs
Outputs from BioEssays
#97
of 3,016 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,059
of 174,919 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BioEssays
#2
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,035 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 3,016 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 174,919 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 29 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.