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The Making of Meritocratic Status Orders

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Sociology, July 2026
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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1 blog
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13 Bluesky users

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Article details
Title
The Making of Meritocratic Status Orders
Published in
Annual Review of Sociology, July 2026
DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-090225-014158
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 30%
Professor 2 20%
Researcher 1 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 50%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Engineering 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 11 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,757,525
of 34,329,868 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Sociology
#317
of 934 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,617
of 315,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Sociology
#4
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,329,868 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 934 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 33.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% 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 315,759 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 94% 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 81% of its contemporaries.