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The construction of sexology as a profession in Portugal: composition professional group and types of sexologists

Overview of attention for article published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, February 2016
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Title
The construction of sexology as a profession in Portugal: composition professional group and types of sexologists
Published in
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, February 2016
DOI 10.1590/1413-81232015212.11112015
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Violeta Alarcão, Fernando Luís Machado, Alain Giami

Abstract

This study sets out to discuss the emergence of the profession of sexologist in Portugal, comparing its development with international trends. This research also seeks to understand the self-identification of sexologists and the significances they attribute to it. The empirical information presented derives from a survey conducted with 91 Portuguese sexologists identified through the leading professional associations and from 44 in-depth interviews with experts selected by intentional sampling to ensure the diversity of Portuguese sexologists. The results of the survey indicate that the Portuguese sexologist is on average 43 years old, mainly female, non-physician, and has training in sexology. Considering the qualifications of the interviewees, their professional trajectories and the activities they develop in the field, and the discourses related to their ideals of the profession, a typology was found with five types: sexologists by vocation, sexologist by clinical practice, sexologists by certification, social scientist-sexologists and sexologists by media coverage. The survey identified an interesting diversity of practices and professional conceptions in the field of sexology in Portugal. Being a sexologist appears to be more associated with the ideals of the profession than the time devoted to same.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 27%
Researcher 1 9%
Librarian 1 9%
Unknown 6 55%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 18%
Linguistics 1 9%
Social Sciences 1 9%
Psychology 1 9%
Unknown 6 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 29 March 2016.
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#16,578,616
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#1,033
of 2,034 outputs
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#232,480
of 406,420 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#19
of 45 outputs
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