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Mothers are sensitive to men's beards as a potential cue of paternal investment

Overview of attention for article published in Hormones & Behavior, May 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 2,586)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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48 news outlets
twitter
9 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
3 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

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66 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Mothers are sensitive to men's beards as a potential cue of paternal investment
Published in
Hormones & Behavior, May 2019
DOI 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.04.005
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 17%
Student > Master 8 12%
Researcher 8 12%
Other 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 22 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 21%
Social Sciences 8 12%
Philosophy 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 26 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 393. 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 25 May 2026.
All research outputs
#98,192
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from Hormones & Behavior
#12
of 2,586 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,657
of 394,739 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Hormones & Behavior
#1
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 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 2,586 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 394,739 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 23 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 95% of its contemporaries.