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South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Refugee Studies, April 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#15 of 1,085)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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8 news outlets
blogs
1 blog

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13 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions
Published in
Journal of Refugee Studies, April 2024
DOI 10.1093/jrs/feae024
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 13 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Unknown 9 69%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 15%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 8%
Unknown 9 69%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. 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 10 April 2025.
All research outputs
#756,556
of 28,623,232 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Refugee Studies
#15
of 1,085 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,934
of 358,010 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Refugee Studies
#1
of 37 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,623,232 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 1,085 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. 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 358,010 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 37 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.