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Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome

Overview of attention for article published in American Sociological Review, October 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#24 of 2,329)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
34 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
twitter
203 X users
weibo
1 weibo user
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
138 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome
Published in
American Sociological Review, October 2014
DOI 10.1177/0003122414555885
Authors

Rory McVeigh, David Cunningham, Justin Farrell

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Unknown 134 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 34%
Student > Master 19 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Professor 8 6%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 27 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 79 57%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 8%
Psychology 5 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 1%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 1%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 28 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 489. 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 02 May 2026.
All research outputs
#68,633
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from American Sociological Review
#24
of 2,329 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#451
of 306,695 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Sociological Review
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,329 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 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.