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Caste and Meritocracy in India

Overview of attention for article published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Title
Caste and Meritocracy in India
Published in
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2026
DOI 10.1177/00027162261467535
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 31 October 2026.
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#1,845,728
of 34,818,737 outputs
Outputs from The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
#262
of 2,639 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,937
of 357,563 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,818,737 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,639 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 357,563 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.
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