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Chasing rainbows: How many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Sociology, November 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 (82nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
Chasing rainbows: How many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work?
Published in
Journal of Sociology, November 2019
DOI 10.1177/1440783319888285
Authors

Jenny Chesters, Johanna Wyn

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Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 65 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 65 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 11%
Student > Master 4 6%
Professor 4 6%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 30 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 12%
Psychology 3 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 33 51%
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 31 January 2020.
All research outputs
#3,642,487
of 25,130,202 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Sociology
#161
of 683 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#82,122
of 472,539 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Sociology
#8
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,130,202 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 683 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 472,539 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.