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The Body, the Ghetto and the Penal State

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Sociology, September 2008
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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 (85th percentile)

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1 blog
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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262 Mendeley
Title
The Body, the Ghetto and the Penal State
Published in
Qualitative Sociology, September 2008
DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9112-2
Authors

Loïc Wacquant

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 262 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 4%
United Kingdom 3 1%
Portugal 3 1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 238 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 80 31%
Researcher 36 14%
Student > Master 30 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 9%
Student > Bachelor 20 8%
Other 52 20%
Unknown 21 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 189 72%
Arts and Humanities 13 5%
Psychology 8 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 1%
Other 15 6%
Unknown 27 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 15 September 2023.
All research outputs
#3,500,424
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Sociology
#75
of 366 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,057
of 87,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Sociology
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,655,397 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 366 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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