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Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News

Overview of attention for article published in Law & Society Review, January 2024
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Article details
Title
Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools
Published in
Law & Society Review, January 2024
DOI 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2006.00261.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Ireland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 98 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 23%
Student > Master 16 15%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 24 23%
Unknown 14 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 34 33%
Business, Management and Accounting 32 31%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 9%
Psychology 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 17 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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 25 March 2024.
All research outputs
#8,444,056
of 26,673,263 outputs
Outputs from Law & Society Review
#296
of 637 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#124,939
of 393,305 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Law & Society Review
#218
of 415 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,673,263 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 637 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% 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 393,305 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 415 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.