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The Log of Gravity

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Economics & Statistics, November 2006
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
43 policy sources
twitter
18 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
q&a
4 Q&A threads

Readers on

mendeley
1898 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Log of Gravity
Published in
Review of Economics & Statistics, November 2006
DOI 10.1162/rest.88.4.641
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 9 <1%
Brazil 7 <1%
Switzerland 7 <1%
United States 6 <1%
Belgium 6 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Other 12 <1%
Unknown 1842 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 341 18%
Student > Master 239 13%
Researcher 172 9%
Student > Bachelor 126 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 93 5%
Other 325 17%
Unknown 602 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 804 42%
Business, Management and Accounting 138 7%
Social Sciences 107 6%
Engineering 37 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 2%
Other 114 6%
Unknown 668 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 172. 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 23 September 2026.
All research outputs
#296,528
of 34,517,289 outputs
Outputs from Review of Economics & Statistics
#64
of 3,634 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#457
of 128,491 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Economics & Statistics
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,517,289 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 3,634 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 128,491 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
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.