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The Sociology of Emotional Labor

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Sociology, August 2009
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
8 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
The Sociology of Emotional Labor
Published in
Annual Review of Sociology, August 2009
DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115944
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 16 2%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Australia 4 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 819 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 166 19%
Student > Master 100 12%
Student > Bachelor 76 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 72 8%
Researcher 52 6%
Other 159 19%
Unknown 231 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 312 36%
Business, Management and Accounting 116 14%
Psychology 64 7%
Arts and Humanities 32 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 2%
Other 72 8%
Unknown 246 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87. 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 01 February 2026.
All research outputs
#609,472
of 33,500,517 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Sociology
#80
of 930 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,477
of 166,311 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Sociology
#5
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,500,517 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 930 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 166,311 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 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.