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“Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants!”: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Perspectives, April 2021
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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Title
“Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants!”: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in
Sociological Perspectives, April 2021
DOI 10.1177/07311214211005494
Authors

Josefina Flores Morales, Fanni Farago

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 19%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Professor 3 7%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 15 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 42%
Psychology 2 5%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Linguistics 1 2%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 16 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 28 October 2021.
All research outputs
#2,746,272
of 25,547,904 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Perspectives
#117
of 560 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#70,977
of 455,289 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Perspectives
#10
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,547,904 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 560 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 455,289 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 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 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 50% of its contemporaries.