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Boxers, Briefs or Bras? Bodies, Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym

Overview of attention for article published in Body & Society, May 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 406)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
88 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Boxers, Briefs or Bras? Bodies, Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym
Published in
Body & Society, May 2012
DOI 10.1177/1357034x12440829
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 86 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 22%
Student > Bachelor 17 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Student > Master 7 8%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 19 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 46 52%
Arts and Humanities 9 10%
Psychology 3 3%
Sports and Recreations 2 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 18 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 07 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,081,255
of 27,834,480 outputs
Outputs from Body & Society
#41
of 406 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,756
of 184,101 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Body & Society
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,834,480 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 406 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 184,101 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.