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The Gold Standard as a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Economic History, March 2009
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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 (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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4 policy sources

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Article details
Title
The Gold Standard as a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”
Published in
Journal of Economic History, March 2009
DOI 10.1017/s0022050700016491
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Spain 2 1%
Poland 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 126 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 22%
Student > Master 28 21%
Student > Bachelor 20 15%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 9%
Researcher 8 6%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 17 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 61 45%
Social Sciences 28 21%
Arts and Humanities 8 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Computer Science 2 1%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 24 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 14 April 2025.
All research outputs
#3,782,745
of 34,400,738 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Economic History
#252
of 1,761 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,557
of 150,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Economic History
#47
of 497 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,400,738 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 1,761 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 150,769 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 497 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.