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Gender Can Be a Continuous Variable, Not Just a Categorical One: Comment on

Overview of attention for article published in American Psychologist, October 2019
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Article details
Title
Gender Can Be a Continuous Variable, Not Just a Categorical One: Comment on
Published in
American Psychologist, October 2019
DOI 10.1037/amp0000505
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 13%
Researcher 4 10%
Lecturer 2 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 20 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 33%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Philosophy 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 22 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 11 January 2023.
All research outputs
#10,836,549
of 33,169,879 outputs
Outputs from American Psychologist
#1,763
of 3,705 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#145,478
of 385,152 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Psychologist
#20
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,169,879 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,705 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 25th percentile – i.e., 25% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.