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Looks and longevity: Do prettier people live longer?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Science & Medicine, August 2024
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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 (95th percentile)

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Title
Looks and longevity: Do prettier people live longer?
Published in
Social Science & Medicine, August 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117076
Authors

Connor M. Sheehan, Daniel S. Hamermesh

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 01 July 2024.
All research outputs
#1,619,149
of 26,233,885 outputs
Outputs from Social Science & Medicine
#1,649
of 12,135 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,556
of 45,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Science & Medicine
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,233,885 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12,135 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 45,467 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them