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Age Bias in Selection Decisions: The Role of Facial Appearance and Fitness Impressions

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, December 2017
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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4 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
8 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
Age Bias in Selection Decisions: The Role of Facial Appearance and Fitness Impressions
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, December 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02065
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 77 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 19%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 4%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 3%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 37 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 21 27%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Linguistics 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 38 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,065,632
of 33,165,053 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#2,377
of 42,945 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,417
of 482,068 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#53
of 532 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,165,053 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 42,945 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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