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The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Political Science, September 2012
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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1 blog
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6 policy sources
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1 Bluesky user

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Article details
Title
The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science
Published in
British Journal of Political Science, September 2012
DOI 10.1017/s0007123412000415
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 407 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 130 31%
Student > Master 48 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 37 9%
Researcher 26 6%
Professor 22 5%
Other 67 16%
Unknown 96 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 246 58%
Arts and Humanities 14 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 3%
Environmental Science 9 2%
Other 32 8%
Unknown 101 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 21 May 2025.
All research outputs
#1,824,429
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Political Science
#345
of 1,549 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,005
of 227,589 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Political Science
#3
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,549 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.