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Sexual orientation and mental health in a birth cohort of young adults

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Medicine, January 2005
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Title
Sexual orientation and mental health in a birth cohort of young adults
Published in
Psychological Medicine, January 2005
DOI 10.1017/s0033291704004222
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Abstract

This paper sought to examine the relationship between sexual orientation and mental health in a New Zealand birth cohort studied to age 25 years.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 149 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 16%
Researcher 25 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 13%
Student > Master 21 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 27 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 46 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 29 19%
Social Sciences 28 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Computer Science 2 1%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 35 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 10 November 2024.
All research outputs
#3,020,421
of 34,441,029 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Medicine
#1,404
of 6,307 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,692
of 212,426 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Medicine
#7
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,441,029 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,307 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 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 74% of its contemporaries.