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The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Political Science

Overview of attention for article published in Political Analysis, February 2025
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Article details
Title
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Political Science
Published in
Political Analysis, February 2025
DOI 10.1017/pan.2025.2
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 12 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Philosophy 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Other 4 16%
Unknown 13 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 07 July 2025.
All research outputs
#9,659,732
of 33,130,212 outputs
Outputs from Political Analysis
#386
of 665 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#97,607
of 357,203 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Analysis
#14
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,130,212 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 665 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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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 is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.