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From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct‐to‐consumer advertising and medicalisation

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology of Health & Illness, August 2008
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Article details
Title
From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct‐to‐consumer advertising and medicalisation
Published in
Sociology of Health & Illness, August 2008
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01092.x
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 74 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Czechia 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 69 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 18%
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Student > Master 11 15%
Researcher 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 17 23%
Unknown 8 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 27 36%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Arts and Humanities 4 5%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 10 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 19 July 2023.
All research outputs
#8,661,961
of 32,261,701 outputs
Outputs from Sociology of Health & Illness
#1,107
of 2,273 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,970
of 125,237 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology of Health & Illness
#12
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,261,701 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,273 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% 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 125,237 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% of its contemporaries.