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Does Human Facial Attractiveness Honestly Advertise Health? Longitudinal Data on an Evolutionary Question

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, January 1998
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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 (97th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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197 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Does Human Facial Attractiveness Honestly Advertise Health? Longitudinal Data on an Evolutionary Question
Published in
Psychological Science, January 1998
DOI 10.1111/1467-9280.00002
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 197 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
United States 3 2%
Canada 2 1%
Spain 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 185 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 39 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 16%
Student > Master 24 12%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Other 40 20%
Unknown 25 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 106 54%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 10%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 2%
Other 22 11%
Unknown 32 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 27 October 2022.
All research outputs
#2,790,420
of 31,936,881 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#2,466
of 4,495 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,036
of 125,630 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#4
of 5 outputs
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