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Centering Black Boys: Theorizing Humanity, Play, and Joy in Contemporary Children's Literature

Overview of attention for article published in Urban Education, September 2025
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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)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets

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mendeley
2 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Centering Black Boys: Theorizing Humanity, Play, and Joy in Contemporary Children's Literature
Published in
Urban Education, September 2025
DOI 10.1177/00420859251371671
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 1 50%
Unknown 1 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1 50%
Unknown 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 03 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,527,091
of 33,660,302 outputs
Outputs from Urban Education
#59
of 748 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,380
of 342,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Urban Education
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,660,302 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 748 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 342,578 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 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them