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Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy

Overview of attention for article published in Review of African Political Economy, January 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 816)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
132 X users
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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42 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy
Published in
Review of African Political Economy, January 2021
DOI 10.1080/03056244.2021.1896262
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 14%
Researcher 4 10%
Lecturer 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 17 40%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 38%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 7%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Unspecified 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 17 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 106. 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 01 September 2026.
All research outputs
#506,397
of 34,669,485 outputs
Outputs from Review of African Political Economy
#10
of 816 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,225
of 575,335 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of African Political Economy
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,669,485 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 816 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 575,335 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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.