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Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Economics, May 2018
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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policy
3 policy sources
twitter
44 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

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mendeley
181 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?
Published in
Journal of Development Economics, May 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.12.006
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 180 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 30%
Student > Master 14 8%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Other 25 14%
Unknown 53 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 63 35%
Social Sciences 43 24%
Arts and Humanities 6 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 1%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 54 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,443,202
of 34,592,533 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Economics
#340
of 2,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,557
of 371,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Economics
#3
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,592,533 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,960 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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