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The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences

Overview of attention for article published in Comparative Political Studies, November 2008
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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 (89th percentile)
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1 policy source
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Article details
Title
The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences
Published in
Comparative Political Studies, November 2008
DOI 10.1177/0010414008325433
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 9 2%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 335 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 113 31%
Researcher 44 12%
Student > Master 37 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 25 7%
Other 59 16%
Unknown 55 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 229 63%
Business, Management and Accounting 22 6%
Arts and Humanities 10 3%
Environmental Science 9 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 2%
Other 21 6%
Unknown 64 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 18 October 2018.
All research outputs
#3,684,709
of 33,738,238 outputs
Outputs from Comparative Political Studies
#611
of 1,524 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,457
of 144,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Comparative Political Studies
#8
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,738,238 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,524 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.