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‘They’re all tribals’: Essentialism, context and the discursive representation of Sudanese refugees

Overview of attention for article published in Discourse & Society, February 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#48 of 460)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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2 news outlets
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Article details
Title
‘They’re all tribals’: Essentialism, context and the discursive representation of Sudanese refugees
Published in
Discourse & Society, February 2014
DOI 10.1177/0957926513519536
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Japan 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
Unknown 57 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 25%
Student > Postgraduate 10 17%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 7 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 36%
Psychology 18 31%
Linguistics 9 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 6 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 07 August 2014.
All research outputs
#2,107,597
of 27,753,105 outputs
Outputs from Discourse & Society
#48
of 460 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,660
of 239,237 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Discourse & Society
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,753,105 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 460 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 239,237 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 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