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A Recap of the 2016 Election Forecasts

Overview of attention for article published in PS, Political Science & Politics, March 2017
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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 (90th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
64 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
24 Mendeley
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 17%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Master 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Other 6 25%
Unknown 5 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 29%
Arts and Humanities 3 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 8%
Computer Science 2 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 8%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 6 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 01 January 2026.
All research outputs
#954,217
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from PS, Political Science & Politics
#91
of 2,204 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,608
of 353,702 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PS, Political Science & Politics
#3
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 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 2,204 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 353,702 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 32 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 90% of its contemporaries.