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Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology Compass, August 2021
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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 (84th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Title
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?
Published in
Sociology Compass, August 2021
DOI 10.1111/soc4.12920
Authors

Yuliya Kosyakova, David B. Bills

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 16%
Student > Master 4 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 11 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 28%
Unspecified 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 14 56%
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 12 December 2022.
All research outputs
#3,059,837
of 25,392,582 outputs
Outputs from Sociology Compass
#182
of 1,039 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#68,681
of 438,888 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology Compass
#5
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,392,582 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% 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 well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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 73% of its contemporaries.