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Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Political Economy, November 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey
Published in
Journal of Political Economy, November 2021
DOI 10.1086/715851
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 26%
Student > Master 6 7%
Professor 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 28 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 41 49%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 31 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. 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 2025.
All research outputs
#1,676,563
of 34,581,411 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Political Economy
#682
of 3,665 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,631
of 474,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Political Economy
#6
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,581,411 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,665 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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 62% of its contemporaries.