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Do the polls affect elections? Some 1980 evidence

Overview of attention for article published in Political Behavior, June 1988
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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 (96th percentile)

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Citations

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Title
Do the polls affect elections? Some 1980 evidence
Published in
Political Behavior, June 1988
DOI 10.1007/bf00991410
Authors

Andrew Skalaban

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 8%
Ireland 1 8%
Belgium 1 8%
Unknown 9 75%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Unspecified 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 33%
Unspecified 1 8%
Philosophy 1 8%
Psychology 1 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 16 August 2023.
All research outputs
#2,551,799
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Political Behavior
#382
of 847 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#403
of 12,710 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Behavior
#2
of 3 outputs
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