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How Mothers and Fathers Share Childcare

Overview of attention for article published in American Sociological Review, December 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
24 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
7 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
467 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
How Mothers and Fathers Share Childcare
Published in
American Sociological Review, December 2011
DOI 10.1177/0003122411427673
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
Latvia 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 456 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 103 22%
Student > Master 53 11%
Researcher 48 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 38 8%
Student > Bachelor 31 7%
Other 65 14%
Unknown 129 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 196 42%
Psychology 35 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 24 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 21 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 3%
Other 45 10%
Unknown 132 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 229. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#209,860
of 34,339,954 outputs
Outputs from American Sociological Review
#93
of 2,328 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#888
of 301,969 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Sociological Review
#3
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,339,954 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,328 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 301,969 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.