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The N Word

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of English Linguistics, July 2011
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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 205)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
14 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
12 Wikipedia pages
reddit
18 Redditors
podcasts
2 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
94 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The N Word
Published in
Journal of English Linguistics, July 2011
DOI 10.1177/0075424211414807
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 4%
France 1 1%
Algeria 1 1%
Unknown 88 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 20%
Student > Bachelor 12 13%
Student > Master 11 12%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 4 4%
Lecturer 3 3%
Other 16 17%
Unknown 29 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 23 24%
Social Sciences 17 18%
Arts and Humanities 12 13%
Psychology 4 4%
Philosophy 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 29 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. 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 07 October 2026.
All research outputs
#700,141
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Journal of English Linguistics
#4
of 205 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,319
of 166,767 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of English Linguistics
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,842 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 205 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. 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 166,767 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 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them