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Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies

Overview of attention for article published in International Migration Review, September 2024
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  • In the top 5% 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 (86th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
91 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies
Published in
International Migration Review, September 2024
DOI 10.1177/01979183241269445
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 91 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 12%
Unspecified 4 4%
Researcher 4 4%
Lecturer 3 3%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 3%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 55 60%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 23%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 5%
Unspecified 4 4%
Mathematics 2 2%
Philosophy 1 1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 55 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 44. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,189,102
of 34,040,673 outputs
Outputs from International Migration Review
#52
of 1,606 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,802
of 332,534 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Migration Review
#3
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,040,673 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,606 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 332,534 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 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.