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CrossFit: Fitness cult or reinventive institution?

Overview of attention for article published in International Review for the Sociology of Sport, June 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 642)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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230 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
CrossFit: Fitness cult or reinventive institution?
Published in
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, June 2015
DOI 10.1177/1012690215591793
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 228 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 37 16%
Student > Bachelor 33 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Lecturer 9 4%
Other 29 13%
Unknown 81 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 63 27%
Social Sciences 20 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 5%
Arts and Humanities 11 5%
Psychology 9 4%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 90 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 25 July 2020.
All research outputs
#713,754
of 22,816,807 outputs
Outputs from International Review for the Sociology of Sport
#28
of 642 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,112
of 262,911 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Review for the Sociology of Sport
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,816,807 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 642 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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