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Defining and Measuring Sexual Orientation: A Review

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 1997
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35 Wikipedia pages
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3 Redditors

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281 Mendeley
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7 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Defining and Measuring Sexual Orientation: A Review
Published in
Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 1997
DOI 10.1023/a:1024528427013
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 12 4%
United Kingdom 3 1%
Canada 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 259 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 18%
Student > Bachelor 45 16%
Student > Master 30 11%
Researcher 23 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 8%
Other 48 17%
Unknown 62 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 109 39%
Social Sciences 41 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 3%
Arts and Humanities 7 2%
Other 27 10%
Unknown 72 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 03 August 2025.
All research outputs
#10,354,265
of 32,233,056 outputs
Outputs from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#2,654
of 4,406 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,480
of 126,570 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#3
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,233,056 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,406 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.0. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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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.