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Shifting parties, rational switchers: Are voters responding to ideological shifts by political parties?

Overview of attention for article published in Party Politics, February 2019
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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 (81st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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Title
Shifting parties, rational switchers: Are voters responding to ideological shifts by political parties?
Published in
Party Politics, February 2019
DOI 10.1177/1354068819829207
Authors

Benjamin Ferland, Ruth Dassonneville

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Student > Master 7 17%
Lecturer 4 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 60%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 11 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 22 February 2019.
All research outputs
#3,606,840
of 25,425,223 outputs
Outputs from Party Politics
#323
of 1,003 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84,509
of 458,382 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Party Politics
#11
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,425,223 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,003 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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