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Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers

Overview of attention for article published in Politics, April 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#34 of 781)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
twitter
17 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
21 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers
Published in
Politics, April 2022
DOI 10.1177/02633957221083974
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Other 1 5%
Lecturer 1 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Researcher 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 13 62%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 3 14%
Linguistics 2 10%
Psychology 2 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Unknown 13 62%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 24 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,004,386
of 34,190,942 outputs
Outputs from Politics
#34
of 781 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,769
of 469,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Politics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,190,942 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 781 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 469,841 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 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