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Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion

Overview of attention for article published in Cross-Cultural Research, May 2003
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 323)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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12 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
8 X users
wikipedia
15 Wikipedia pages
reddit
8 Redditors

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251 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion
Published in
Cross-Cultural Research, May 2003
DOI 10.1177/1069397103037002003
Authors

Richard Sosis, Eric R. Bressler

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 11 4%
United Kingdom 4 2%
Denmark 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Saudi Arabia 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 224 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 54 22%
Student > Bachelor 33 13%
Researcher 28 11%
Student > Master 19 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 59 24%
Unknown 44 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 56 22%
Psychology 55 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 11%
Arts and Humanities 11 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 3%
Other 37 15%
Unknown 56 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 139. 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 14 October 2026.
All research outputs
#378,053
of 34,582,852 outputs
Outputs from Cross-Cultural Research
#4
of 323 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#316
of 79,109 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cross-Cultural Research
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,582,852 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 323 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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