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Abnormal returns to rivals of acquisition targets: A test of the `acquisition probability hypothesis'

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Financial Economics, February 2000
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Title
Abnormal returns to rivals of acquisition targets: A test of the `acquisition probability hypothesis'
Published in
Journal of Financial Economics, February 2000
DOI 10.1016/s0304-405x(99)00048-3
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 3%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Macao 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United Arab Emirates 1 <1%
Unknown 227 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 79 33%
Student > Master 29 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 6%
Professor 13 5%
Other 40 17%
Unknown 41 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 112 47%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 71 30%
Social Sciences 5 2%
Engineering 3 1%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 45 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 01 October 2020.
All research outputs
#6,087,087
of 27,780,120 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Financial Economics
#1,185
of 2,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,562
of 121,579 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Financial Economics
#13
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,780,120 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,722 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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