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A rainbow in the dark? The electoral impact of elite divisions within the ruling party in dictatorships

Overview of attention for article published in Politics, August 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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Title
A rainbow in the dark? The electoral impact of elite divisions within the ruling party in dictatorships
Published in
Politics, August 2026
DOI 10.1177/02633957261464037
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 15 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,970,625
of 34,329,910 outputs
Outputs from Politics
#155
of 782 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,681
of 299,603 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Politics
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,329,910 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 782 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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