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Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms

Overview of attention for article published in SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020
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Title
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms
Published in
SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020
DOI 10.2139/ssrn.3753043
Authors

David Arnold, Will Dobbie, Peter Hull

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 02 January 2021.
All research outputs
#11,247,277
of 34,627,816 outputs
Outputs from SSRN Electronic Journal
#35,842
of 78,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#176,114
of 522,803 outputs
Outputs of similar age from SSRN Electronic Journal
#4,430
of 8,771 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,627,816 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 78,252 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 8,771 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 49th percentile – i.e., 49% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.