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‘You will always have to “out” yourself’: Reconsidering coming out through strategic outness

Overview of attention for article published in Sexualities, March 2012
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 X user

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156 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘You will always have to “out” yourself’: Reconsidering coming out through strategic outness
Published in
Sexualities, March 2012
DOI 10.1177/1363460711420462
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 4%
Portugal 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 145 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 24%
Student > Master 27 17%
Researcher 15 10%
Student > Bachelor 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 28 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 59 38%
Psychology 38 24%
Arts and Humanities 10 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Linguistics 3 2%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 36 23%
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 08 June 2025.
All research outputs
#1,058,745
of 34,413,214 outputs
Outputs from Sexualities
#54
of 1,121 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,501
of 203,070 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sexualities
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,413,214 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 1,121 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.