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Activities, Productivity, and Compensation of Men and Women in the Life Sciences

Overview of attention for article published in Academic medicine, April 2010
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Activities, Productivity, and Compensation of Men and Women in the Life Sciences
Published in
Academic medicine, April 2010
DOI 10.1097/acm.0b013e3181d2b095
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Abstract

To determine whether professional activities, professional productivity, and salaries of life sciences faculty differ by gender. The authors undertook this study because previous studies found differences in the academic experiences of women and men.

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 56 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 21%
Student > Master 6 11%
Other 5 9%
Professor 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 16 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 20 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 26 September 2017.
All research outputs
#2,459,051
of 34,361,833 outputs
Outputs from Academic medicine
#996
of 7,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,891
of 147,489 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Academic medicine
#4
of 57 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,361,833 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,704 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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