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The Social Psychology of Tanning and Sunscreen Use: Self‐Presentational Motives as a Predictor of Health Risk1

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology, July 2006
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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 (82nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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1 blog
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
The Social Psychology of Tanning and Sunscreen Use: Self‐Presentational Motives as a Predictor of Health Risk1
Published in
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, July 2006
DOI 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01039.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 18%
Student > Bachelor 4 14%
Researcher 3 11%
Student > Postgraduate 3 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 8 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 32%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 7%
Philosophy 1 4%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 7 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 22 March 2024.
All research outputs
#5,476,604
of 32,075,850 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Applied Social Psychology
#554
of 1,790 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,387
of 119,200 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Applied Social Psychology
#199
of 721 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,075,850 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,790 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 119,200 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 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 721 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 72% of its contemporaries.