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Do Policy Makers Use Academic Research? Reexamining the “Two Communities” Theory of Research Utilization

Overview of attention for article published in Public Administration Review, October 2015
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
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3 policy sources
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79 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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136 Dimensions

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Title
Do Policy Makers Use Academic Research? Reexamining the “Two Communities” Theory of Research Utilization
Published in
Public Administration Review, October 2015
DOI 10.1111/puar.12464
Authors

Joshua Newman, Adrian Cherney, Brian W. Head

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 267 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 64 23%
Student > Master 34 12%
Researcher 29 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 7%
Student > Postgraduate 12 4%
Other 54 20%
Unknown 61 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 113 41%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 9%
Arts and Humanities 13 5%
Environmental Science 11 4%
Computer Science 7 3%
Other 34 12%
Unknown 71 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. 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 December 2022.
All research outputs
#742,343
of 25,703,943 outputs
Outputs from Public Administration Review
#64
of 2,165 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,584
of 287,659 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Administration Review
#1
of 26 outputs
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