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‘Nice girls don't carry knives': Constructions of ambition in media coverage of Australia's first female prime minister

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Social Psychology, August 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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4 news outlets
twitter
5 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

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75 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘Nice girls don't carry knives': Constructions of ambition in media coverage of Australia's first female prime minister
Published in
British Journal of Social Psychology, August 2012
DOI 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2012.02114.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 74 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 19%
Student > Bachelor 13 17%
Student > Master 12 16%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 16 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 25%
Psychology 16 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 12%
Arts and Humanities 8 11%
Linguistics 1 1%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 17 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 19 May 2025.
All research outputs
#1,307,461
of 29,792,533 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Social Psychology
#148
of 1,206 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,491
of 196,948 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Social Psychology
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,792,533 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,206 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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