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The literacy hour

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Public Economics, June 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
policy
14 policy sources
twitter
6 X users

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111 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The literacy hour
Published in
Journal of Public Economics, June 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.11.008
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 104 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 13%
Researcher 11 10%
Professor 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 24 22%
Unknown 26 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 32%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 20%
Psychology 6 5%
Linguistics 5 5%
Arts and Humanities 3 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 31 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#934,896
of 34,335,254 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Public Economics
#298
of 3,805 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,910
of 138,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Public Economics
#3
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,335,254 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,805 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 39 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.