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Becoming a Population: Seeing the State, Being Seen by the State, and the Politics of Eviction in Cape Town

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Sociology, February 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 384)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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Title
Becoming a Population: Seeing the State, Being Seen by the State, and the Politics of Eviction in Cape Town
Published in
Qualitative Sociology, February 2021
DOI 10.1007/s11133-021-09476-1
Authors

Zachary Levenson

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 1 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Researcher 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 58%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 17%
Arts and Humanities 1 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 8%
Design 1 8%
Unknown 7 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 12 September 2021.
All research outputs
#2,195,010
of 25,576,801 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Sociology
#43
of 384 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#64,271
of 547,391 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Sociology
#3
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,576,801 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 384 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.2. 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 547,391 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.