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Contest competition and men's facial hair: beards may not provide advantages in combat

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution & Human Behavior, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#19 of 1,524)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
52 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
52 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
3 Redditors
podcasts
2 podcasts

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59 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Contest competition and men's facial hair: beards may not provide advantages in combat
Published in
Evolution & Human Behavior, March 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.11.004
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 59 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 12%
Student > Master 7 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Other 4 7%
Researcher 4 7%
Other 13 22%
Unknown 18 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 15%
Social Sciences 5 8%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Sports and Recreations 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 22 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 476. 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 12 October 2026.
All research outputs
#72,057
of 34,599,069 outputs
Outputs from Evolution & Human Behavior
#19
of 1,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,452
of 374,357 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolution & Human Behavior
#2
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,599,069 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,524 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 46.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 374,357 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 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.