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The Shadow of Indebtedness: Bridewealth and Norms Constraining Female Reproductive Autonomy

Overview of attention for article published in American Sociological Review, April 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Shadow of Indebtedness: Bridewealth and Norms Constraining Female Reproductive Autonomy
Published in
American Sociological Review, April 2013
DOI 10.1177/0003122413484923
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Unknown 118 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 30%
Student > Master 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Researcher 8 7%
Professor 6 5%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 26 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 55 45%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 7%
Arts and Humanities 7 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 31 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 07 September 2023.
All research outputs
#2,064,806
of 32,567,093 outputs
Outputs from American Sociological Review
#539
of 2,274 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,497
of 236,649 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Sociological Review
#8
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,567,093 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,274 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 236,649 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 27th percentile – i.e., 27% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.