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Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in Ghana: Colonial Legacies and the Constitution as Determinants

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Sociology, July 2020
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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 (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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28 X users
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1 peer review site
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1 Facebook page

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38 Mendeley
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Title
Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in Ghana: Colonial Legacies and the Constitution as Determinants
Published in
Critical Sociology, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/0896920520943263
Authors

Clement Sefa-Nyarko

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 18%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Researcher 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 16 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 34%
Arts and Humanities 3 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 16 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 30 January 2021.
All research outputs
#1,675,012
of 25,155,561 outputs
Outputs from Critical Sociology
#68
of 1,065 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,361
of 405,687 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Sociology
#4
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,155,561 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,065 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.