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How Biology Textbooks Reflect Gender Inequality and Myth

Overview of attention for article published in Contexts, September 2026
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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 (96th percentile)

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Article details
Title
How Biology Textbooks Reflect Gender Inequality and Myth
Published in
Contexts, September 2026
DOI 10.1177/15365042261471535
Authors

Stef M. Shuster, Nicole Wonderlin, Shahnaz Masani

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,936,257
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from Contexts
#103
of 990 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,282
of 173,700 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Contexts
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 990 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 173,700 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them