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Why Forecast? The Value of Forecasting to Political Science

Overview of attention for article published in PS, Political Science & Politics, October 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 (82nd percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 blog
twitter
7 X users

Citations

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5 Dimensions

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11 Mendeley
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Title
Why Forecast? The Value of Forecasting to Political Science
Published in
PS, Political Science & Politics, October 2020
DOI 10.1017/s104909652000133x
Authors

Keith Dowding

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 18%
Other 1 9%
Professor 1 9%
Lecturer 1 9%
Student > Master 1 9%
Other 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 45%
Computer Science 2 18%
Unknown 4 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 September 2021.
All research outputs
#3,042,835
of 25,634,695 outputs
Outputs from PS, Political Science & Politics
#532
of 1,883 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#75,934
of 437,272 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PS, Political Science & Politics
#27
of 48 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,634,695 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,883 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 437,272 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 48 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.