Elective vulvar plastic surgery was the topic of a heated discussion on the list-serve of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Medicine. At the suggestion of a board member, it was determined that this discussion might of interest to journal readers in the form of a published controversy.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 15 February 2026.
All research outputs
#12,344,283
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Sexual Medicine
#2,602
of 4,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,492
of 129,497 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Sexual Medicine
#9
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,689 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.6. This one is in the 36th percentile – i.e., 36% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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