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Between food delicacies and food taboos: A structural equation model to assess Western students' acceptance of Amazonian insect food

Overview of attention for article published in Food Research International, July 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Between food delicacies and food taboos: A structural equation model to assess Western students' acceptance of Amazonian insect food
Published in
Food Research International, July 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.foodres.2018.07.027
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 192 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 10%
Student > Master 20 10%
Researcher 18 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 71 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 3%
Other 39 20%
Unknown 81 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 01 January 2026.
All research outputs
#3,472,079
of 33,082,196 outputs
Outputs from Food Research International
#526
of 5,918 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,798
of 363,803 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Food Research International
#9
of 135 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,082,196 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,918 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 363,803 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 135 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.