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Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy

Overview of attention for article published in Hypatia, March 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#34 of 1,009)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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4 blogs
twitter
16 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
4 Redditors

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54 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy
Published in
Hypatia, March 2020
DOI 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01306.x
Authors

Molly Paxton, Carrie Figdor, Valerie Tiberius

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 51 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Professor 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Other 11 20%
Unknown 7 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 22 41%
Psychology 6 11%
Arts and Humanities 4 7%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Unspecified 2 4%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 8 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. 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 18 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,287,735
of 34,545,128 outputs
Outputs from Hypatia
#34
of 1,009 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,256
of 422,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Hypatia
#13
of 398 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,545,128 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,009 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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