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Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples

Overview of attention for article published in American Sociological Review, November 2014
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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 (98th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (58th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
5 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
3 Redditors

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99 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples
Published in
American Sociological Review, November 2014
DOI 10.1177/0003122414555886
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 4%
Dominican Republic 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 93 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 36%
Student > Master 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Lecturer 4 4%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 13 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 66 67%
Psychology 9 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 14 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 13 May 2026.
All research outputs
#716,457
of 32,665,822 outputs
Outputs from American Sociological Review
#229
of 2,280 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,350
of 411,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Sociological Review
#5
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,665,822 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,280 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.6. 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 411,365 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its contemporaries.