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Are Political Attacks a Laughing Matter? Three Experiments on Political Humor and the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigning

Overview of attention for article published in Political Research Quarterly, June 2021
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Are Political Attacks a Laughing Matter? Three Experiments on Political Humor and the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigning
Published in
Political Research Quarterly, June 2021
DOI 10.1177/10659129211023590
Authors

Iris Verhulsdonk, Alessandro Nai, Jeffrey A. Karp

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 22%
Student > Master 2 9%
Unspecified 1 4%
Librarian 1 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 10 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 35%
Arts and Humanities 2 9%
Unspecified 1 4%
Unknown 12 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 December 2022.
All research outputs
#1,414,307
of 25,382,035 outputs
Outputs from Political Research Quarterly
#226
of 1,286 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,835
of 440,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Research Quarterly
#7
of 30 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,286 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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