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The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology Compass, May 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 (#4 of 1,039)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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31 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
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20 X users

Citations

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Title
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity
Published in
Sociology Compass, May 2021
DOI 10.1111/soc4.12846
Authors

Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott, Annie Hardison‐Moody

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 123 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Researcher 9 7%
Unspecified 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 4%
Student > Master 5 4%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 65 53%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 8%
Unspecified 8 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 67 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 257. 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 10 May 2023.
All research outputs
#142,467
of 25,387,668 outputs
Outputs from Sociology Compass
#4
of 1,039 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,323
of 453,654 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology Compass
#1
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,387,668 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,039 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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