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How Much Walking Is Needed To Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness? An Examination of the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

Overview of attention for article published in Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport, June 2011
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Article details
Title
How Much Walking Is Needed To Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness? An Examination of the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
Published in
Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport, June 2011
DOI 10.1080/02701367.2011.10599766
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Authors

Stephen D. Anton, Glenn E. Duncan, Marian C. Limacher, Anthony D. Martin, Michael G. Perri

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Student > Master 4 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 11%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 3%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 11 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 10 29%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 14 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 14 April 2026.
All research outputs
#4,222,779
of 34,517,649 outputs
Outputs from Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport
#166
of 1,127 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,796
of 163,034 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,517,649 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,127 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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