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What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?

Overview of attention for article published in Public Opinion Quarterly, May 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 1,379)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
85 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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289 Dimensions

Readers on

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364 Mendeley
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Title
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?
Published in
Public Opinion Quarterly, May 2019
DOI 10.1093/poq/nfz003
Authors

James N Druckman, Matthew S Levendusky

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 364 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 80 22%
Unspecified 46 13%
Student > Master 38 10%
Researcher 28 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 6%
Other 65 18%
Unknown 86 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 166 46%
Unspecified 46 13%
Psychology 20 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 3%
Computer Science 4 1%
Other 21 6%
Unknown 97 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 121. 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 25 March 2024.
All research outputs
#350,026
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Public Opinion Quarterly
#46
of 1,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,244
of 366,562 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Opinion Quarterly
#2
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,379 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.